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Fig. 9, A Clip or dipper from Montezuma Caiion; bowl, 3i inches diam" 

 eter ; handle, 4 inches long. 



Fig. 12. A pitcher, taken from a grave on the banks of the San Juan, 

 near the month of the Mancos, by Captain Moss. In the same find 

 were other similar vessels, some polished stone implements, and a 

 human jaw-bone. The ware of this pitcher is a coarse, gray material,, 

 somewhat roughly modeled, but of fine form and tasteful decoration. 



Fig. 10 is a peculiar vessel, found among the Moquis of Tegua. Tliey 

 could give no account as to where it came from or who made it. It is 

 probably of Zuiii manufacture. The material is rather soft, being easily 

 cut with a knife. The upper portion is painted or glazed white, and 

 the lower red ; the figures are painted in red and black. The tallest 

 portion is six inches in height. 



Fig. 7 is an example of the modern work of the Moquis of Tegua. 

 The uiaterial and workmanship are far below any of the preceding 

 examples 5 approaching them only in its ornamentation, which is strictly 

 inventional, but somewhat bizarre. 



Plate 23. 



This plate is intended to represent some of the most striking in- 

 stances of taste and ingenuity in the ceramic decoration of the name- 

 less potters, all the examples selected being, with one exception, from 

 vessels of the general form of Fig. 1. With but very few exceptions 

 the ornamentation is on the inner surface, generally in the form of a 

 band, from 1 inch to 4 or 5 inches in breadth, but in many cases it cov- 

 ers the entire inner surface. If the outside of the dish is painted it is 

 in the form of a simple narrow band, like Fig. 15. These dishes or 

 bowls vary in size from 13 inches in diameter (Fig. 9) to mere cups of 

 only 5 inches (Figs. 18, 19). 



The ware is dark gray and nearly white; hard and firm, giving a clear 

 ringing sound when struck. It varies in thickness from -^^ to f of an 

 inch. Many of the specimens have a fine glossy glaze upon which, 

 the black design lies without any perceptible wearing away. Figs. 

 7, 8, 10, and 10 are good examples, all the others but a trifle less 

 so. This is the more noteworthy from the fact that all have been ex- 

 posed in open places to all the disintegrating influences of soil and cli- 

 mate for probably hundreds of years. Fig. 2 appears to have suffered 

 the most, but the white ground has worn out, leaving the black design 

 in relief. In some, as in Fig. 2, the design is jet black, running through 

 intermediate shades of a reddish black when the color has run thin, 

 down to where the design is quite faint ; whether from the washing 

 away of the paint or whether it was originally so, would be hard to tell. 



Fig. 4 is a design that occurs frequently in the bottom of the dishes ; 

 we found half a dozen of the same general form. Circles with many 

 radiating points, like a delineation of the sun, also occur quite often. • 



In Fig. 21 we have the only example yet found from among the an- 

 cient pottery of any attempt at imitational ornament. As to what the 

 figure is intended to represent would be rather difficult to decide satis- 

 factorily . This fragment came from the upper canon of the Montezuma, 

 and represents the inner surface of the bowl ; it is reduced to about one- 

 third in the plate. 



Fig. 20 is evidently a portion of the neck of a jug or like vessel of the 

 rough gruy ware, of which Figs. 1 and 12 of Plate 21 are composed. It 

 is another rude attempt in plastic material at the imitation of animal 

 life, and evidently is intended for a frog. This comes also from the 

 Montezuma Cahon. 



