. Bulletin. Ethnology. 118 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 96 The present example is so typical of that group that it might well have come from one of the sites in the Pueblo Bonito district. The appearance of this plan of decoration at such an early stage in the beginning period of the Pueblo cultures is of considerable in- terest to the student of the Chaco cultures. It certainly represents one of the earliest forms of what was to become a very popular style of pottery ornamentation. Tlie brushwork in the design is good and the pigment black. It has been somewhat obscured by an earth sta
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 118 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 96 The present example is so typical of that group that it might well have come from one of the sites in the Pueblo Bonito district. The appearance of this plan of decoration at such an early stage in the beginning period of the Pueblo cultures is of considerable in- terest to the student of the Chaco cultures. It certainly represents one of the earliest forms of what was to become a very popular style of pottery ornamentation. Tlie brushwork in the design is good and the pigment black. It has been somewhat obscured by an earth stain which also discolored the surfaces of the vessel. Vari- ous acids were used in an effort to remove this stain and an attempt was made to burn it off but without success. Enough was removed, however, to make evident the fact that a good slip had been applied to the bowl prior to the painting of the Figure 24.—Checkerboard element in panel and baud decoration Only a few examples of the use of the checkerboard element in decoration were found and it does not seem to have come into wide- spread use until the following period. One bowl with a checker de- sign falls into the general group of the bisected field in that its sole ornamentation consists of a single panel of the checkerboard form which cuts across the center of the concave surface. (Fig. 24, a.) The effect produced is quite pleasing, even though the design is a very simple one. The pigment is a faint black and gives the ap- pearance of having been washed out, which possibly is the result of too thin a mixture on the part of the painter. The bowl was slipped with a coating of the " liquid " clay, but is quite discolored from some substance which was in the soil where it was buried. A variation of the checkerboard form of decoration is illustrated in Figure 24, 6, and Plate 29, h. This design properly belongs in the group of band decorations, but since it is the sole example of the. Please note t
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