. Bulletin. Ethnology. KOBEtti'Sj VILLAGE OF THE GREAT KIVAS 121 spread in the region between the Puerco of the West and the Little Colorado and occurs, to some extent, along the Arizona-New Mexico line north of the Puerco. A large group of vessels from the Chaco Canyon were similarly ornamented. In the latter case it was also employed on vessels other than bowls, such as tall-necked pitchers and cylindrical vases. The involved fret design on c, Plate 33, is the only one of its kind in this collection. It is very suggestive of certain Little Colorado decorations but apparently is an off patter
. Bulletin. Ethnology. KOBEtti'Sj VILLAGE OF THE GREAT KIVAS 121 spread in the region between the Puerco of the West and the Little Colorado and occurs, to some extent, along the Arizona-New Mexico line north of the Puerco. A large group of vessels from the Chaco Canyon were similarly ornamented. In the latter case it was also employed on vessels other than bowls, such as tall-necked pitchers and cylindrical vases. The involved fret design on c, Plate 33, is the only one of its kind in this collection. It is very suggestive of certain Little Colorado decorations but apparently is an off pattern and too individualistic for close correlation with any one culture or any particular site. The simple decoration on d, Plate 33, is composed of two rows of opposing terraced figures. There is nothing unusual or characteris- tic, from the standpoint of district or culture, in this decoration. The design on the bowl «, Plate 33, is one which is commonly found. a Figure 25. -Checker patterns from black-on-white bowls in considerable variation throughout the eastern reaches of the Little Colorado area. The series of triangular figures separated by groups of parallel lines form a pattern which is simple yet pleasing. A unique example of a combination solid and hachure decoration is that on the walls of the bowl pictured in Plate 33, /. In this case a zigzag hachured figure was painted around the interior just be- low the rim, and a series of solid fret symbols were extended from its lower angles. These figures were balanced by small frets pendent from the rim above the hachured element. Solid and hachured figures in contrasting patterns of the modified curvilinear and rectilinear swastika motif are illustrated by the bowls. Plates 32, /, and 33, e. Both of these examples are typical of designs found in the hachured wares group in the Chaco Canyon. The second design is also suggestive of an Upper Gila decoration of this form. As will be observed from the photograph, both Chaco. Pl
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