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expanded as to become intensively ornamented bands (pi. IV, fig. 2, e; 

 pi. II, fig. 2). 



It is clear that the object of the preliminary dividing up of the 

 decorative space is to reduce it to a number of triangular spaces. This 

 done, there follows a secondary laying off, which is merely a carrying 

 on of the same process (pi. IV, fig. I, c), and still smaller triangular 

 fields are produced; these contain the actual units of the design. 



These elements (or units of design) are of three types: opposed 

 stepped figures (pi. v) ; single or double scrolls (pi. v) ; the club-shaped 

 element (pi. vi). The plates of photographs should also be consulted. 

 The opposed stepped figures are, of the three, the most typically 

 Southwestern. In general they are distinguishable from other Pue- 

 bloan elements of the same kind by: (1) the fact that the two figures 

 are in opposed colors (red and black) ; (2) the fineness and accuracy of 

 the delineation and the sloping character of the "steps"; (3) by the 

 unusual practice of mounting both figures on a single "stalk" (pi. v, 



figs. 1 and 3). 



Of the scroll, the figures 

 (pi. v, figs. 6 and 7) give a 

 better idea than can be gained 

 by description. In its most 

 characteristic and abundant 

 form (pi. 11, fig. 10) it is the 

 core, so to speak, of a triangular field and consists of a single line 

 curving in on itself. This arrangement is, so far as I know, not found 

 elsewhere in the Southwest. Interlocking scrolls arranged in band 

 form (pi. v, fig. 8) are much less common; this type, as distinguished 

 from the first, is found on the pottery of practically every Puebloan 

 district. 



Fig. 6. — Type m. 



Fig. 7. — Serpent. (Museum of the American Indian.) 



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