. Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. -red pottery are extremely rare in lowerlevel debris. Rim sherds of a number of individual bowls (fig. 5),however, illustrate the existence of a fairly uniform type. Severalof the sherds were found built into the walls of the dwellings of thefirst occupation. This may signify that a still older horizon to which * These specimens are to be found in the Arizona State Museum, Tucson.^Douglass, A. E., December, 1929, p. 767.^ By personal letter of January 27, 1930. NO. II PUEBLO RUINS IN ARIZONA—HAURY AND HARGRAVE 29 these sherds belong is to be found elsew
. Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. -red pottery are extremely rare in lowerlevel debris. Rim sherds of a number of individual bowls (fig. 5),however, illustrate the existence of a fairly uniform type. Severalof the sherds were found built into the walls of the dwellings of thefirst occupation. This may signify that a still older horizon to which * These specimens are to be found in the Arizona State Museum, Tucson.^Douglass, A. E., December, 1929, p. 767.^ By personal letter of January 27, 1930. NO. II PUEBLO RUINS IN ARIZONA—HAURY AND HARGRAVE 29 these sherds belong is to be found elsewhere in the ruin. Featureswhich correspond in all sherds are: A rather coarse-textured paste isused which burned red with a dark core ; tempering consists of crushedrock of light color and possibly a small amount of pulverized pot-sherds ; the slip is of a deep red color applied both inside and outsideof bowls; vessel forms consist of bowls only, and these are unusuallydeep with slightly incurved rims and rounded or squarish lips; the.
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