. Bulletin. Ethnology. ROBERTS] PUEBLO EUmS IN COLORADO 115 The effect in each case is the same regardless of the difference in number. The pigment of both the central and side figures is a fairly good black with a slight suggestion of a glaze. The surface of the bowl did not have a slip. The second design (fig. 21, &) is a single panel composed of five approximately parallel lines passing through the center of the bowl. The outer lines have additional figures in the form of the slightly leaf-like elements. The latter were probably not intended to rep- resent leaves, however, but are more
. Bulletin. Ethnology. ROBERTS] PUEBLO EUmS IN COLORADO 115 The effect in each case is the same regardless of the difference in number. The pigment of both the central and side figures is a fairly good black with a slight suggestion of a glaze. The surface of the bowl did not have a slip. The second design (fig. 21, &) is a single panel composed of five approximately parallel lines passing through the center of the bowl. The outer lines have additional figures in the form of the slightly leaf-like elements. The latter were probably not intended to rep- resent leaves, however, but are more likely what resulted when the potter tried to paint a series of triangular figures with tips, the so-called bird symbols, of the form so frequently found on the vessels of this period. The specimen itself gives the impres- sion that too hasty or especially unskilled brushwork was responsible for the form which the elements took. The pigment in this decora-. a b Figure 22.—Bisecting panel and quartered designs tion is a rather faded black. Before it was applied to the interior of the bowl the bowl was given a coating of " liquid " clay—a slip. Two very similar designs are illustrated in Plate 25. One of them, c, is quite well done and shows a fair amount of skill with the brush. The other, /, has practically the same characteristics illustrated in the example depicted in the drawing. There was an amplification in the design illustrated in the photograph, how- ever, in that it has the border lines, with the stepped treatment, around the wall just below the rim. The bisecting panel is quite comparable to the one just described—in fact, suggests that it might have been made by the same potter. Both of the latter bowls (pi. 25) were slipped. One especially well illustrates the thick and thin feature described in the discussion of the slip in general. It is G of Plate 25. Still additional examples of the same crude style of painting are illustrated in Figure 22. The f
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