. Bulletin. Ethnology. Interior and exterior decoration on biscuit ware food bowls. from the shape of the bowl there probably never was any. The ex- terior decoration is that of a centipede. Part of the tail and part of the head can still be seen. Whether there was more than one centipede or not can not be stated, as a large part of the sides and rim are gone. The shape of the bowl is different from the others. The sides slope up in a curve to about halfway from the top, and. Fig. 12. -^.Centipede. £. Snakes. (7. Fish. D. Dragon fly. .B. Head of centipede. G. Spider woman (Navajo). F. Fish. th
. Bulletin. Ethnology. Interior and exterior decoration on biscuit ware food bowls. from the shape of the bowl there probably never was any. The ex- terior decoration is that of a centipede. Part of the tail and part of the head can still be seen. Whether there was more than one centipede or not can not be stated, as a large part of the sides and rim are gone. The shape of the bowl is different from the others. The sides slope up in a curve to about halfway from the top, and. Fig. 12. -^.Centipede. £. Snakes. (7. Fish. D. Dragon fly. .B. Head of centipede. G. Spider woman (Navajo). F. Fish. then curve in rather sharply. The part above the curve is almost equal to the part below it. Usually the sharp angular curve occurs higher up the side. Below the centipede are three lines running around the bowl. Below these are three lines running perpendicu- larly from the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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