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their relative infrequence at Kokopnyama, protohistoric Hopi vil- 

 lages in Jadito Valley, he conjectures the use of such plates as 

 " revolving rests for ware during the process of manufacture." ^^ 



Figure 24. — Rim fragments of pottery plates 



In other words, a rotative disk that could be turned as the formative 

 vessel it supported took shape — nearest aboriginal approach in the 

 New World to the potter's 

 wheel. 



Like the two jars previ- 

 ously mentioned, the broken 

 ladle shown in Plate 46, 4 

 received no surface slip. 

 It bears no trace of orna- 

 mentation either within the 

 bowl or on its flat, solid han- 

 dle. In prehistoric times, 

 as to-day, Pueblo potters 

 habitually modeled a ladle 

 handle separately and fre- 

 quently attached it by in- 

 serting one end through a 



hole punched in the still plastic clay of the bowl, the union then 

 being smoothed ovef and completely obliterated. This union, in the 

 case of tubular handles, was occasionally strengthened by a cylin- 

 drical clay plug, molded separately and introduced from the bowl 

 after the handle was joined to its exterior. (Fig. 25.) 



=" See Walter Hough : Archseological Field Work in Northeastern Arizona. The Museum- 

 Gates Expedition of 1901. U. S. National Museum, 1901, An. Kept., pp. 337 and 343. 

 Washington, 1903. 



Figure 25. — Ladle fragment 



