. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . basketry was found. A cooking pot found in this cemetery contained a lump of clay,rib bones of some mammal, a stone polisher, and many cedar this bowl were two smaller vessels turned upside down. Most of the pottery found in the cemeteries of Four-mile ruin wascovered with a tenacious, white, calcareous deposit, which was easilyremoved by washing. Collections Principal Types The pottery of Four-mile ruin is essentially the same as that foundat Ilomolobi and Chevlon in 189G, and co
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . basketry was found. A cooking pot found in this cemetery contained a lump of clay,rib bones of some mammal, a stone polisher, and many cedar this bowl were two smaller vessels turned upside down. Most of the pottery found in the cemeteries of Four-mile ruin wascovered with a tenacious, white, calcareous deposit, which was easilyremoved by washing. Collections Principal Types The pottery of Four-mile ruin is essentially the same as that foundat Ilomolobi and Chevlon in 189G, and consists of about the sameproportion of decorated and of rough, coiled ware, the formerpredominating. The rough ware differs but little from that of the pueblos alreadymentioned, but there is a great increase in the number of specimensof this ware with a smooth blackened interior. The percentage ofthis kind of pottery increases as we go south from the ruins aboutthe inhabited villages of the Hopis, and is greatest in the ruins on theGila-Salado watershed. The blackened interior resembles the black. FEWKEs] POTTERY FROM FOUR-MILE RUIN 141 ware of Santa Clara piu-l)!)), Imt no vessel was found at Fonr-niileruin whose exterior was of this color. One of the kinds of rough ware which is well represented at Four-mile ruin is that decorated on the exterior with geonietj-ical patterns(see figure 88). The pigment was applied to the rough outer surfaceof the coils. Commonly, however, the interior was smooth and black-ened, as with certain other rough-ware vessels. The predominatingcolor of pottery from this ruin was red, and almost all forms weremade in this color. It is the characteristic color of pottery in theLittle Colorado ruins, and is found as far south as Pinedale, reap-pearing again in the Gila basin. Bowls of red ware with black decorations having a margin ofwhite occur in many of the LittleColorado ruins. Fine vases of thesecolors, in which white predominates,especially around t
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