. Bulletin. Ethnology. Fig. 17.—Avaflu decoration on biscuit ware tub. manner that it suggests that the artist who painted it was somewhat of a genius. At first appearance it seems amateurish, but a careful study of this piece shows skill and artistic feeling. (Fig. 16.) Figure 17 shows part of a very handsome tub with a typical Avanu in the bottom. It is to be regretted that only a part of this specimen was recovered, but enough of the fragments were obtained to reconstruct a large part of it, and thus give a good idea of what the tub originally looked like. It is especially handsome and well
. Bulletin. Ethnology. Fig. 17.—Avaflu decoration on biscuit ware tub. manner that it suggests that the artist who painted it was somewhat of a genius. At first appearance it seems amateurish, but a careful study of this piece shows skill and artistic feeling. (Fig. 16.) Figure 17 shows part of a very handsome tub with a typical Avanu in the bottom. It is to be regretted that only a part of this specimen was recovered, but enough of the fragments were obtained to reconstruct a large part of it, and thus give a good idea of what the tub originally looked like. It is especially handsome and well made. The paste is very fine and hard and of the finest grade of biscuit paste. The color is the typi- cal yellow of the fine biscuit with very black decoration. Plate 45, D, is another in- teresting sherd. The decora- tion is different from any- thing ever found on the Jemez Plateau and suggests the Hopi pattern. The broken circle or horse- shoe with the flags is not like any part or element of the biscuit ware. The fragment is part of the bottom of a large, heavy tub. The color is dark gray. (Fig. 18.) LARGE WATER JARS From the standpoint of elaborate design, hard paste, excellent finish, and beauty, the water jars are by far the best in the collection of the biscuit ware. While in many ways they are not greatly different from the water jars found all over the Jemez Plateau, yet those of Po- shu have one distinctive feature that makes them easy to identify. This feature is the sharp incurve at the shoulder. There is also a little difference in the curve of the bot- '""' torn and its relation to the shoulder. Fig. on biscuit ware sherd. ^^ -^^^^ ^f ^^^ Variety of CUrveS and shoulders may be obtained by referring to Figure 19, which shows one-half of the outlines of the principal water and storage jars found in the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - color
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