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corners of the mouth. Zigzag fillets span these openings and a pair of fillets 

 surrounds the mouth, the whole of which is easily visible because of the pro- 

 truding lower jaw. The pectorals and one dorsal fin are represented. The eyes 

 are left out. The neck and handles are plain, but there are traces of paint 

 splotches within and without that were spread over the slip in streaks by rubbing. 



The characteristic tripod rim has completely disappeared in figure 140, which 

 is a typical example of the handled ware plus the legs. The paint is also 

 applied exactly as in that group. The inner surface of the rim leading to the 

 orifice is painted, but the interior of the bowl is not, neither are the handles. 

 A pair of pectoral fins remain to give a fishlike aspect to the legs. The tail is 

 slightly flattened laterally, but not incised. 



The vase of which one foot is shown in figure 141 is also of the handled type, 

 differing only from the latter in its comparatively large mouth opening and 



Fig. 139. — Tripod with gracefully modeled supports 

 representing the fish. Fish ware. V» 



Fig. 140. — Typical example of handled ware with 

 legs, the latter exhibiting pectoral fins only. 

 Fish ware. '/» 



painted interior. The wide-spreading legs are clumsy and ponderous. Nothing 

 of the fish remains except a single dorsal fin at the upper end of the long 

 median slit. 



The painters of the tripod group possessed an interesting technique. The red 

 paint was applied to the slip in spots or bands and rubbed down while in the 

 process of drying, thus producing the effect of floating clouds or the flecked 

 surface of the eggs of certain birds. This is seen to best advantage over the 

 surface of the interior, where the red was sometimes simply spattered on and 

 then rubbed in. This spattering treatment minus the rubbing in was practised 

 by the ancient Tusayan potters, fine examples of it being found by Fewkes x at 

 the ruined pueblo of Sikyatki. 



1 Seventeenth Ann. rept., Bur. Amer. ethnol., Pt. 2, 650, 1895—1896. 



