INDIAN POTTERY. 
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The fragments a, b, c, d, are from the ruins of a pueblo on the Little Colorado. 
Plate 40 represents fragments in which two colors only are chiefly used—black or brown lines 
on a light-grey ground, and mostly the natural tint of the clay. 
No. 1. From the big bend of Flax river. 
No. 2. Part of the neck of a vessel. 
Nos. 3 and 4. From Flax river. 
Nos, 5 and 6. Found near camp 70, in the vicinity of Zuni. They are modern, and in 
appearance and hardness approach to our stoneware. 
No. 7. A minute fragment, and observable only for its minute squares. 
No. 8. Ornamented on the opposite side with white lines on a dark ground. 
Nos. 10 and 11. From Colorado Chiquito. No. 11 is from the upper part of a bowl whose 
edge is tapered and neatly rounded. 
Plate 40. 
Ancient Indian pottery. 
The remaining four fragments are of the natural color of the coarse clay of which they have 
been made. They display attempts at ornament, by incrusting and otherwise marking the sur- 
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