> $876.) The Ancient Pottery of Colorado, ete. 451 
indented, thatched, ribbed in parallel lines, or possess squamous, 
foliated, wavy, or pointed surfaces. The ware is generally of a 
lead or clay color. 
II. This division embraces all the earthenware on whose sur- 
face have been molded or modeled figures of animals or fanciful 
designs which stand out in relief, the material being the same 
-clay of which the vessel has been constructed. 
Specimens of this class are very rare, and but few have ever 
been discovered among these ruins. I picked up the ends of sev- 
eral handles of utensils which had been molded into representa- 
tions of the heads of animals and birds. The only specimen of 
any importance, however, found by the expedition was one I 
picked up in Montezuma Cañon, Utah. It was a perfect repre- 
VEN of a frog on the neck of a jug. (See Figure 20, Plate 
) 
In the Reports of Explorations and Surveys, vol. iii., Pacific 
Railroad Report, Lieutenant A. W. Whipple (in his Itinerary, 
P- 65) mentions having seen two pieces of pottery with animal 
representations : “ Upon one fragment, indeed, found upon Rio 
Gila, was pictured a turtle, and a piece of pottery picked up near 
the same place was molded into the form of a monkey’s head.1 
a appeared to be ancient, and afforded exceptions to the 
rule,” 
IV. Under this class is comprehended all of the finer ware, 
Which is highly glazed and frequently ornamentally painted in 
geometrical designs with durable colors, which are usually black, 
red, yellow, brown, and white. This variety is by far the most 
common and evidently the most recent, or at least not more 
ancient than the next class (V.), and represents the highest per- 
fection of the art to which the ancient people attained. 
- When the second and fourth varieties are combined, the 
Tesulting vessels represent the most ornamental workmanship of 
the ancients, We occasionally see jars and vases of this descrip- 
tion where one portion, as the neck, is laminated, while the 
Ower parts are smooth and glazed. It is not seldom that a bowl 
* shallow dish is found whose interior surface is carefully painted 
and glazed, and whose exterior is indented. This indentation was 
evidently accomplished by a sharp instrument; after the scales 
other? rude representation of this head may have been intended for that of any 
vr yet it seems that this people was acquainted with the tropical monkey, 
which nd to-day, among their rock inscriptions of upright figures, many with tails 
Could hardly be intended for anything else. — E. A. B. 
