COLLECTIONS FROM ACOMA.
ARTICLES OF CLAY.
WATER VASES.
There are but few pieces of this pottery, yet a careful examination of these since my return increases my desire to procure more. The Acoma bears a strong resemblance, especially in the ornamentation, to that from Laguna. All that was obtained was of white ware with decorations in color. In this pottery, in most cases where animals are figured, they have a base or ground on which to stand.
| Fig. 618 ([39581]) (¼) |
2401. (39578). Medium size, figures of birds, ant-hills, and cactus. No band on the neck.
2403. (39582). Very pretty specimen, quite symmetrical, broad jar-shaped, a scalloped band on the neck with little tassels suspended from it, possibly intended to imitate fringe. Large triangles on the body pointing to the right, each tipped with a flower.
2404. (39730). Small scalloped band around the neck similar to Fig. [624].
2405. (41310). Large double band of triangles on the neck; body with a band of large diamonds, or squares placed as diamonds, with checkered centers and crescents.
2406. (41313). No band on the neck; birds and ant hills.
2407. (41314). No band on neck; large elk and some irregular figures.
2408. (41315). No band on neck; bird on the ground amid leaves and flowers.
2409. ([41316]). Fig. [619]. The ornamentation on this is more than usually spirited.
| Fig. 619 ([41316]) (¼) | Fig. 621 ([41318]) |
2410. ([41318]). Scalloped margin, no neck-band; belt of large open diamonds around the body, each upper corner capped with three leaves. See Fig. [621].
2411. ([41317]). Large size; a double band of crescents around the neck; then on the shoulder an arched band with a central stripe of diamonds; below this a double line of inverted crescents, and below this a large three-leafed plant. See Fig. [620].
2412. (42378). Plain.
| Fig. 620 ([41317]) | Fig. 622 ([42377]) |
2413. (42383). Small, with lines of outline crescents around the body.
2414. ([42377]). See Fig. [622].
PITCHERS.
White decorated ware with handles:
2415. (41311). Regular form, of medium size, with a broad zigzag band around the neck and another around the body. The latter has in each large fold something like an arrow-head with point broken off.
2416. (41312). Olla-shaped neck with snort oblique bands; body with large and small triangles.
EATING BOWLS.
The following specimens are small:
2417. (42461). Shaped exactly like the small soup bowl in use at the present day among the whites; with foot encircled by a vine with well-formed leaves. A pretty piece.
2418. (42462). Regular form, with an outline zigzag band.
2419. (42463) and (42464). Very small, conical in shape, the former marked with slender lines running around it, the latter with dots.