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than the parrots that are presumably portrayed in the round on 

 effigy pots (pi. II, fig. 7) and painted in at the corners of certain 

 diamond-shaped fields in rectilinear class 2 designs (pi. v, fig. 2, e; 

 pi. in, fig. 9). 



Human Figure. — Only one instance of the representation of the 

 human form has come under my notice. 1 It occurs in the form of two 

 similar panels in background drawing on opposite sides of a standard 

 jar (pi. vii, figs. 5 and 7). The presence of a form of the club-like 

 element as a filler in one of the examples (fig. 7) should be noted. 

 Curvilinear Decorations. — These are distinctly uncommon, but the 



few examples which do oc- 

 cur conform closely to a 

 single type. The skeleton 

 cut (fig. 10) and the photo- 

 graph (pi. 11, fig. 6) illus- 

 trate the style more clearly 

 than can be done by verbal 



Fig. 10.— Curvilinear framework. description. The heavy 



black delineating line with 

 its curved terminations, and the contrasting with it of hatched rib- 

 bons, both strongly suggest the ornamentation of certain black-and- 

 white pitchers from the Tularosa-Socorro district of southern New 

 Mexico. 



Gila-like Vessels. — Plate II, figure 3, shows one of four or five 

 specimens in the Casas Grandes collection that in color and ornamen- 

 tation seem to show analogies to the polychrome ware of the lower 

 Gila. 2 The painted figures are much more coarsely executed than is 

 usual at Casas Grandes; red is employed as a kind of secondary back- 

 ground; and the minor elements, such as the fringed line, the hatching, 

 and the stepped figures do not conform to like elements in the local 

 style. As the clay appears to be the same as that used at Casas 

 Grandes and the line-break (always present in Lower Gila decoration) 

 is missing, we are led to believe that these pieces are copies rather 

 than importations. 



RELATIONSHIPS 



Because of our limited knowledge of the ceramics of northern 

 Mexico, this paper, of necessity, has been descriptive rather than 

 comparative. Some remarks on the place of Casas Grandes ware in 

 the general archeological scheme may, however, not be out of place. 



1 Aside from the peculiar anthropomorphic serpent figured by Spinden, loc. cit. 

 8 A piece is also figured by Lumholtz (op. cit., pi. Ill, e). 



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