386 PUEBLO POTTERY. 



The fourth, or lowest of the zones, contains six more of the animal 

 figures which are drawn in a similar manner and are of about the same size 

 with those in the second division above, except that the figures of the male 

 deer with antlers alternate with figures of females which are represented 

 without antlers and with young. The foetus is drawn in profile, standing, 

 with its head in the posterior portion of its mother's body. The figure of 

 the young animal occupies the total length and width of the body of the 

 parent. Between these male and female deer are branching figures of the 

 same character and color with those in the second zone. 



Altogether this vessel is a most interesting study and is of a style of 

 ornamentation entirely unlike any other that I have seen. It is probable 

 that others of a similar character will be obtained from the southern 

 pueblos, as it is evidently a characteristic style of ornamentation. 



A number of ollas and large and small bowls were obtained at Santa 

 F4, by members of the Survey. These are all of a red-colored clay, 

 thick and heavy, and not very well baked. In every respect this class of 

 pottery is very much inferior to the large olla from Zuni described above. 

 They are generally more or less covered exteriorly with a thin wash of 

 white on which figures of various kinds are drawn in black, principally 

 consisting of circles, zigzags, lozenge-shaped figures and waved and parallel 

 lines. Some of the bowls have the ornamentation on the inside; in these 

 the interior is whitened and the outside is of its natural red color. In one 

 or two the ornamentation is in black, painted on the red ground. Several 

 of the vessels in this lot seem to have been slightly polished by rubbing the 

 partly-dried clay with a smooth stone before baking, as is done by many 

 Indian tribes. When well performed this method of polishing the vessel 

 gives a fine lustre which resembles and has often been mistaken for a thin 

 glaze, particularly in pottery from some parts of Mexico. None of this 

 modern pueblo pottery, however, has been so highly polished as that to 

 which I have alluded. On some of these modern bowls a rude attempt 

 has been made at a little naturalistic work, such as the figure of a bird or 

 of a vine 



With these ollas and bowls there are a number of small objects of the 

 same material and style of ornamentation, all of which were brought in 



