Type sites: All specimens were collected ethnographically on the Fort Mohave Reservation in the vicinity of Needles, California.
Cultural association: Historic Mohave.
Time: In use and collected during the years 1902 through 1908.
Size of sample: 33 bowls; 4 jars; 7 cups; and 29 scoops.
ANALYSIS
Construction technique: Coiling.
Finishing technique: Paddle and anvil.
Firing: Fully to incompletely oxidized.
Paste:
Color.—Range: hue 2.5YR to 10R; value 6 to 7; chroma 4 to 6. Most common: 2.5YR 6/5 (between a weak reddish orange and a weak orange.)
Temper.—Size: average .4 mm. (fine); maximum 1.4 mm. (coarse); minimum microscopic. Greatest range between average and maximum observed in a single vessel is .4 to 1.3 mm. Kind: predominantly white angular and subangular particles (feldspar) together with a small amount of white rounded particles (quartz). Some mica (copper-colored) is present, but except for a few vessels is hardly noticeable.[9] No sherd temper is visible. Amount: When seen in cross section the amount of the paste surface occupied by temper particles ranges from ca. 30 per cent to ca. 50 per cent; the average being ca. 40 per cent.
Carbon streak.—None.
Texture.—Rough.
Hardness.—Where the paste is buff-colored: range of hardness is 2 to 6.5; average is 4. Where the paste is grayish: range 3.5 to 8.5; average 6.5. These hardness ratings can be in error ± .5 owing to variability in the mineral set used for testing.
Fracture.—Medium to crumbling.