A Study of Pueblo Pottery as Illustrative of Zuñi Culture Growth. / Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 467-522

by Frank Hamilton Cushing

Fig. 562.—Kidney-shaped vessel, Nicaragua.

Fig. 563.—Iroquois bark-vessel.

So, too, in the unsymmetrical urns of Central and Isthmean America, which are characterized by the location of the aperture at the upper part of one of the extremities and by streak-like decorations, we have a decided suggestion of the animal paunch or bladder and of the visible veins on its surface when distended.

Fig. 564.—Porcupine quill decoration.