Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Indians of New Mexico And Arizona in 1879 / Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 307-428

by James Stevenson

ARTICLES OF CLAY.

WATER VASES.

This group, though comparatively small, contains some of the largest and grandest pieces in the entire collection, some of the vases being twenty inches in height and twenty-two in diameter, having a capacity of ten gallons. It consists of white ware with decorations in black, bearing a strong resemblance to that of Cochiti, brown micaceous, and polished brown ware without ornamentation, and black ware without ornamentation.

Tinajas or vases. Well formed and similar in shape to those from Cochiti.

2536. (39507). With oblique diamond figures on the neck, and geometrical figures on the body.

2537. (39520). Upper half only decorated with rude figures of leaves and twigs.

2538. (39523). Similar to the preceding.

2539. (39525). Without neck; a broad and true meander band around the middle, with three-leaved flower above and below on each coil.

2540. (39530). Neck ornamented with a straight and an undulate line; body as in No. 2539.

2541. (39531). With rosette and triangular figures somewhat similar to those on Zuñi ollas.