COLLECTIONS FROM LAGUNA.
ARTICLES OF CLAY.
WATER VASES.
These are mostly of the usual form, though some should, probably on account of their shape, be designated as jars. A few have the margin undulate, and some are without any distinct neck.
They are generally well made and very symmetrical, of white ware, with decorations in black, brown, or red colors.
| Fig. 585 ([41295]) (⅓) |
| Fig. 586 ([42385]) (⅓) |
2290. ([41295]). Small, with opposite handles or ears, resembling rats peeping into the vessel; body decorated with broad oblique stripes and figures resembling corn blades. Shown in Fig. [585].
2291. ([42382]). Small, decorated with birds fighting, their feathers ruffled. Fig. [612].
2292. (42384). Small, with a single broad undulate band around the body, having a white stripe in the middle marked with a row of dots.
2293. ([42385]). Fig. [586]. Scalloped and straight band around the neck; body with two interlaced undulate bands, with triangles alternately in the inclosed and upper spaces.
2294. ([42380]). Red base, upright black bands in the center, with brown band below neck, and oblique bars extending from rim downward. See Fig. [610].
2295. ([42381]a). Fig. [587]. The leaves in the decorations of this piece are probably designed to represent corn blades. There is something about the figures here used which leads one to believe they are, in part, at least, symbolical.
| Fig. 587 ([42381]) (¼) | Fig. 588 ([42386]) (¼) |
2296. ([42386]). Fig. [588]. Large. Large flower ornaments surrounding large birds with crests and ruffled feathers, one in each space. The large-billed bird may be intended for a raven; the other the California quail.
2297. ([42387]). Small margin, with images of three birds with spread wings on it; figures of two birds, with a few small flowers covering the body. See Fig. [611].
| Fig. 610 ([42380]) | Fig. 611 ([42387]) | Fig. 612 ([42382]) |
2298. (42388). Small. Zigzag band around the neck; figures on the body as in Fig. [585].
2299. (42389). Jar-shaped; zigzag band extending on neck and shoulder; a straight and scalloped band just below the shoulder.
2300. (42390). No neck, broadest near the top; birds, and flowers with stem. Small.
2301. (41391). Without neck; birds only, small.
2302. (42392). Without neck. Birds picking grass. Small flowers.
2303. (42393). Scalloped margin; birds only, small.
2304. ([42394]), Fig. [589]. Scalloped margin. Deer, which seems to be biting the leaves of a plant.
| Fig. 589 ([42394]) (⅓) | Fig. 590 ([42395]) (⅓) | Fig. 591 ([42398]) (⅓) |
2306. (42396). Jug-shaped, scalloped margin, with four bands of crescents on the body.
2307. (42397). Jug-shaped, with square month; zigzag line around the neck. Scrolls and oblique diamond figures on the body; small.
2308. ([42398]). Fig. [591]. Ears in the form of animals peeping into the vessel.
2309. (42399). Small, with crude images of animals on the margin; birds alone on the body.
2310. (42400). Small; no neck, square mouth; image of a rabbit at each corner on the rim; birds and checkered square on the body.
2311. (42401). Small and similar to preceding, except that there are only corn leaves and a little square on the body.
2312. (41402). Similar in form to the preceding; image of an animal at one corner only; zigzag line around the neck; double undulate line around the body, with dots above and below.
2313. (41403). Similar to No. 2310, except that it is more slender and jar-shaped; image of a dog or coyote at each corner; figure of a ladle and a diamond on the body.
2314. (41404). Jar-shaped, with a round mouth, one animal on the margin; triangular lines on the body.
2315. (42406). Regular shaped olla of medium size; large figure of leaf twigs arranged in the form of a Maltese cross, surrounded on the side by broad curved lines or stripes.
The following are but slightly decorated:
2316-2317. 2316, (42376), and 2317, (42378). With one or two simple narrow bands or lines.
2318. (42780). With slight oblique lines on the neck, and a few broad upright lines in two groups on the body.
2319-2320. 2319, (42379), and 2320, (42381b). Without decorations of any kind.
WATER JUGS AND JARS.
2321. ([41299]). Fig. [593], Canteen with the images of four dogs or coyotes on it. Leaf decorations.
2322. (41300). Canteens, regular form. Irregular figures.
| Fig. 593 ([41299]) (½) | Fig. 594 ([42412]) (⅓) | Fig. 595 ([42413]) (⅓) |
2323. ([42412]). Fig. [594]. Canteen of regular form, scalloped band, leaves and geometrical figures.
2324. ([42413]). Fig. [595]. Olla-shaped canteen. The top is depressed and ornamented with a scalloped band; immediately below this is a broad band consisting of two plain, narrow stripes, between which is a row of oblong figures arranged in a zigzag pattern; around the middle of the vessel there is a sparsely serrate band, interrupted at intervals by small circles, in each of which there is the form of a cross.
| Fig. 596 ([42409]) (⅓) |
2325. ([42409]). Fig. [596]. The ornamentation on this piece is rather peculiar and worthy of attention, especially the bands around the columns.
2326. (42411). Double pepper and salt box, square form, with two handles side by side; birds mounted on the handles; figures of elk on the sides and ends in procession.
2327. (42475). Moccasin; rude.
PITCHERS.
These are well formed, evidently in imitation of those introduced by the white population. All similar in form, with handles. White ware with decorations; of medium size.
| Fig. 592 ([41298]) (⅓) |
2328. ([41298]). Shown in Fig. [592].
2329. (42405). Diamond scroll in the upper zone; a band of triangles with points directed upward in lower zone.
2330. (42406). Flower or rosette in upper zone, one on each side; no other figures.
2331. (42407). Broad band around the neck, from which two long-pointed triangles or acuminate figures point downwards; then another simple straight band, and below this a zigzag band.
2332. (42408). Scroll band around the neck; a band of hour-glass figures around the shoulder.
2333. (42410). With an undulate band around the bowl.
EFFIGIES.
These are of white decorated ware, and in the form of birds and quadrupeds; the orifice being usually in the top of the head, but in birds it is occasionally at the tail, and in the quadruped forms sometimes in the breast.
Birds.
These are frequently without feet, &c.; one or two double ones are on pedestals.
2334-2347. 2334, (41301); 2335, ([41302]), Fig. [597]; 2336, ([41303]), Fig. [598]; 2337, (41304); 2338, (41305); 2339, ([42414]), Fig. [608]; 2340, ([42415]), Fig. [599]; 2341, ([42418]), Fig. [609]; 2342, (42419); 2343, (42423); 2344, (42426); 2345, (42427); 2346, (42428); 2347, (42429), are all similar to that represented in the Figures; some of them are intended to represent other birds than ducks.
| Fig. 597 ([41302]) (⅓) | Fig. 598 ([41303]) (⅓) | Fig. 599 ([42415]) (½) |
| Fig. 605 ([42420]) | Fig. 608 ([42414]) | Fig. 609 ([42418]) |
| Fig. 600 ([42417]) (⅓) |
2348. ([42417]). Fig. [600]. With two heads on a pedestal.
2349. ([42420]). Two heads, but not on a pedestal; a handle on the back in the form of a fox or dog. See Fig. [605].
2350-2352. 2350, (42421); 2351, (42422); 2352, (42424). Similar to those shown in Fig. [598], but the decorations are scrolls and triangular figures. The first has a flower or rosette on the breast.
2353. (42425). Two-headed; not on pedestal; lines, triangles, &c.
2354. (42435). With a crest and long tail; apparently a rooster.
Quadrupeds.
2355. ([41306]). Fig. [601]. This represents a sheep. The orifice is in front of the head.
| Fig. 601 ([41306]) (⅓) | Fig. 607 ([41307]) |
2356-2357. 2356, ([41307]), Fig. [607], and 2357, (41309). These are probably intended for sheep, but they are so rude that it is not possible to determine with any certainty. Bark colored.
2358. (41308). A cow; although rude, the characteristics are well given, even to the hoofs and udder; spotted on the back and breast. Coloring on the sides intended to represent hair.
2359. ([42430]). Shown in Fig. [606].
| Fig. 602 ([42431]) (⅓) | Fig. 606 ([42430]) |
2360. ([42431]). Fig. [602]. This and the preceding figure are evidently intended to represent rabbits.
2361-2362. 2361, (42432), and 2362, (42433). Similar to the last; apparently intended for a figure of the ass (Burro), though the spots on the former are inappropriate. The latter is decorated on the side with the figure of another quadruped.
2363. (42434). Animal unknown.
2364-2365. 2364, (42436), and 2365, (42437). Animal not determinable; decorated with spots.
2366-2371. 2366, ([42438]), Fig. [603]; 2367, (42439); 2368, (42440); 2369, (42441); 2370, (42442); 2371, (42443). Antelope and elk. The first is evidently an antelope, and possibly the third and fifth. The rest are certainly elk. Decorations simple.
| Fig. 603 ([42438]) (⅓) | Fig. 604 ([42444]) (⅓) |
2372. ([42444]). Probably a dog or coyote, with scrolls and diamond figures. See Fig. [604].
2373. (42445). Probably a horse.
Human figures—dolls.
2374-2377. 2374, (42447); 2375, (42448); 2376, (42449); 2377, (42450). Females; simple.
2378. (42446). Is a pretty fair representation of a chair.
EATING BOWLS.
The Laguna bowls are mostly of two sizes, either large or small. The former are eating bowls and are of the general form, or perhaps more hemispherical than usual. The small ones vary in shape from the preceding form to that of a flat-bottomed basin. The decorations present but little similarity to those we have previously described from other tribes; white ware with colored decorations.
Small bowls. Decorations all external:
2379. (41296). Square mouth, with two sides somewhat flattened. Scrolls and leaf-like figures on the outside.
2380. ([41297]). Fig. [616]. Shown in the figure.
2381. (42451). Basin-shaped, with a handle on one side and a lip on the other; simple marginal and basal band with oblique lines.
| Fig. 616 ([41297]) (½) | Fig. 617 ([42452]) (⅓) |
2382. ([42452]). Fig. [617]. Same form, with handle on which is seated some animal, apparently a dog, no lip. Band of diamond figures with central spaces. These two are the only specimens which have handles.
The following are quite small, basin-shaped, decorated with leaflike figures:
2383-2388. 2383, (42453); 2384, (42454); 2385, (42457); 2386, (42458); 2387, (42459); 2388, (42460).
The two following are small, of regular form:
2389. (42455). With two zigzag lines around the body.
2390. (42456). With geometrical figures.
Large bowls.
2391. (41265). No external decorations; radiating lines and large spaces inside.
2392. (42474). Inner zigzag marginal line as on Zuñi bowls; outer decorations also somewhat like the usual triangular figures on the Zuñi bowls.
The following are without inner decorations:
| Fig. 614 ([42469]) |
2393-2395. 2393, (42466); 2394, (42468); 2395, (42472). With broad band of geometrical figures; the first with a narrow scalloped band bordering the large band below.
2396-2397. 2396, (42461), and 2397, ([42473]), Fig. [613]. With irregular geometrical figures; no band.
2398. ([42469]). With diamond marginal band; irregular figures below. Fig. [614].
| Fig. 613 ([42473]) | Fig. 615 ([42471]) |
2399. (42470). The large circular scroll with irregular figures; no band.
2400. ([42471]). Scalloped circle with a square in it, and leaf-like figures. Fig. [615].