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Of the two bowls, both restored, the larger (6) was first coated 

 inside and out with a thin red slip, polished and then decorated 

 with a coarsely hachured, convoluted design in black. Ornamenta- 

 tion is limited to its inner surface. The smaller specimen (2) has an 

 out-flaring rim and a single, horizontally placed loop-handle — two 



characteristic features of bowls 

 belonging to the principal Kay- 

 enta culture. But this particu- 

 lar vessel bears no decoration 

 whatsoever. Its exterior was 

 roughly smoothed ; its inner sur- 

 face Avas covered with a cream- 

 colored slip and polished. Varia- 

 tion in Betatakin bowl rims is 

 shown by Figure 23, drawn from 

 fragments in our Shard collection. 

 In this same series are segments 

 of four shallow, platelike vessels 

 with perforated edges (fig. 24) , a 

 type limited in distribution, s far 

 as I am aware, to the Kayenta 

 district, and to Jadito Valley, southeast of the modern Hopi villages. 

 Fewkes ^^ illustrates a restored specimen, 5l^ inches (0.133 m.) in 

 diameter, from the Marsh , Pass region ; Kidder and Guernsey ^^ 

 observed fragments of similar dishes on ruins in the same locality 

 and were so fortunate as to recover half of a 13-inch (0.330 m.) 

 plate, threaded with strips of yucca, at Sunflower House, on the 



F'iGURB 22. — Shakd pottery scraper 



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Figure 23. — Rim types of Betatakin bowls 





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south margin of Skeleton Mesa some 2 miles below the mouth of 

 Segi Canyon. Both their pronounced shallowness and their mar- 

 ginal perforations attract attention to these unusual vessels. What 

 purpose they originally served remains undetermined. Hough ap- 

 pears to be the only one who has ventured an opinion. After noting 

 the occurrence of fragments in large numbers at Kawaiokuh and 



1911, pi. 15, b. 



25 1919, p. 143. 



