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fragments of a few coarse, dark-brown to rusty-black vessels, appar- 

 ently of olla form. The smaller pieces, being thin-walled and much 

 blackened with soot, were probably used in cooking; the larger ones 

 have walls nearly half an inch thick and must have been two feet to 

 two feet six inches in height. These heavy fragments are not sooted 

 and are probably parts of capacious jars for storage or for holding 

 water. The paste of all the sherds is dark-brown, coarsely tempered 

 in most instances with bits of pounded quartz; there is no slip, and 

 while the surfaces are rough, they show no trace of corrugation. 



POLISHED BLACKWARE 



These pieces, of which there are sixteen in the Phillips collection, 

 are jet-black in color and have a highly polished, lustrous surface. 

 Technically they are identical with the well-known polished black- 

 ware made today at Santa Clara pueblo, New Mexico, and are doubt- 

 less the product of the same smothered-fire process of burning used 

 at that village. 1 The commonest shape is a full-bodied bowl with 

 incurved rim (pi. I, fig. 6); there are also small jars with flaring lips, 

 bearing two horizontally perforated suspension lugs. Some of the 

 jars have vertical flutings on their sides (pi. I, fig. 8), a feature also 

 found on similar forms made at Santa Clara. While one small piece 

 (C-3999) bears added ornament in the form of knobs and ridges 

 crudely imitating the wings and tail of a bird, 2 and another (Mus. 

 Amer. Ind. whs) is double-lobed, the blackware in general does not 

 run to eccentric forms; this is undoubtedly due to the fact that the 

 polishing stone, the use of which was, of course, essential for the 

 production of the lustrous finish, could be employed only on gently 

 curving surfaces free from protuberances or abrupt changes of angle. 

 The above is a very good example of the influence of technical pro- 

 cesses in the development of vessel forms. 



EEDWARE 



Technically this ware is comparable to the black, was probably 

 made of the same clay, and differs from it only in not having been 

 polished so highly nor subjected to a smothered firing. The base is 

 yellowish brown, considerably darker than the base of the painted 

 ware ; broken pieces show (in common with most other Southwestern 

 pottery that has been burned at low fire) a central streak of gray. 



'See Hewett, op. cit., p. 77; and for the chemistry of the process, Franchet, Ceramique 

 Primitive. 



- This little object and another like it were apparently used as whistles. Such instruments made 

 of pottery are not found, so far as I know - , elsewhere in the Southwest. 



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