Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collections Obtained From The Indians Of New Mexico Part 23

1683. (41545). No outer decorations; inner crenate marginal line; scrolls and diamond below. The following are similar:

1684-1697. 1684, (41554); 1685, (41558), marginal band of lance points; 1686, (41564); 1687, (41567); 1688, (41569); 1689, (41573); 1690, (41575); 1691, (41578); 1692, (41579); 1693, (41582); 1694, (41585); 1695, (41588); 1696, (41591), this has also the triangular bird; 1697, (41623).

1698. (41551). No outer decorations; zigzag marginal line; flowers and lines below.

1699. (41552). This has a very pretty design on the outside, a band of diamonds, a little cross in each, and a dotted line above and below.

The inner decorations of this and the following consist of a broad band only, of geometrical or architectural figures. Outer decorations various, which alone are mentioned.

1700-1701. 1700, (41553), bird in a wreath; 1701, (51555), lines of crescent.

1702-1703. 1702, (41556), and 1703, (41563). Same as the preceding.

1704. (41570). Similar to the preceding, with scroll band below.

1705. (41572). Triangular figures.

1706. (41597). Scalloped lines arranged in large diamonds, with a flower in the center of the diamond.

1707. (41626). Scrolls and crescents.

1708. (41628). Same as No. 1706.

1709. (41559). Checkered band and scrolls inside, band of crescents outside.

1710. (41566). Inner marginal band as in outer decorations found on Zuni bowls.

1711. (41571). No outer decorations; inner geometrical figures but no band.

1712. (41593). Checkered band, and scrolls inside; broad marginal band with lower side scalloped.

1713. (41594). With no outer figures; radiating simple and serrate lines inside.

1714. (41595). No outer decorations; scalloped or crenate band, and geometrical figures on inner surface.

1715. (41600). No outer decorations; birds and flowers or rosettes.

1716. (41625). No outer decorations; inside with successive scallops, and the conventional bird form between squares, one above the other.

1717-1718. 1717, (41560), and 1718, (41624). Brown ware without ornamentation.

Minute bowls, usually without decoration, but sometimes figured, especially on the outside, with simple outline figures.

1719-1727. 1719, (41418); 1720, (41419); 1721, (41421); 1722, (41422); 1723, (41423); 1724, (41424); 1725, (41457); 1726, (41458); 1727, (41459), with short handle; the decoration in this is true herring-bone pattern.

1728. (41460). Square basins. These are comparatively small and resemble in shape a common knife-basket or tray, but without handle or division.

1729. (41533). Outside with figures of birds, flowers and diamonds.

1730. (41535). Outer band with scrolls along the under edge or margin; diamond with scroll on inside.

1731. (41537). Inside similar to No. 1730; outside usual triangular figures.

1732. (41536). Outside similar, inside with four faces in outline.

1733. (41542). Plain brown.

1734. (41546). Outside the usual triangular figures; inside bird figures and slender leaf-stalks.

1735. (41557). Outside triangular figures; inside double scroll.

1736. (41586). Outside oblique, double serrate bands; inside broad marginal checkered band; bottom four faces.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Fig. 523 (41540) (?) Fig. 524 (41385) () Fig. 525 (41518) () Figs. 523-525.--Wolpi Eating Bowl, Cooking Vessel and Ladle.]

_COOKING VESSELS._

These are usually unadorned and of brown or black ware. The number obtained was not large, and they vary greatly in character. They are generally of medium size or small, and some which appear to be used as cooking vessels have a handle on the side and resemble pitchers and cups. Some have two handles and are shaped like an urn or olla; others appear to be true pots. The want of uniformity among this tribe in the use of vessels of this kind renders its difficult to cla.s.s them according to use. I will, therefore, group them according to form.

Except one or two of the little pots none of them are ornamented.

Pot-shaped vessels:

1737-1739. 1737, (41360); 1738, (41379); 1739, (41385); two handles as in Fig. 524.

1740-1741. 1740, (41380), and 1741, (41405). Without handle, the latter possibly used as a drinking vessel.

1742-1746. 1742, (41381); 1743, (41382); 1744, (41383); 1745, (41384); 1746, (41386); each with a handle on one side; they resemble pitchers or cups.

_TOY-LIKE VESSELS._

1747. (41416). Like a small water-vessel.

1748. (41442). Olla-shaped, with handles; decorated with a band of loops around the middle.

1749. (41451). Olla.

1750-1751. 1750, (41452), and 1751, (41453). Cylindrical jars without handles.

1752-1753. 1752, (41293), and 1753, (41294). Large black Cooking pots of the usual shape.

1754. (42367). Flat jar-shaped vessel, red ware, with regular ears on the sides with holes through them. Cooking vessel; new.

1755. (42369). Small globular red bowl, half burned.

1756. (42370). Part of a corrugated vessel. It is yellow, but partly burned; it looks fresh and new, but is really old, having been out of the ground of old ruins near Wolpi.

_LADLES._

Of these vessels, which are extensively used by the s.h.i.+numos, there are various forms with an almost endless variation in decoration, being generally of ornamented white ware. Some of them bear a strong resemblance to the skillets used on cooking stoves, the handle being looped, but the bowl is more saucer-shaped. Others, as shown in Figs.