. Bulletin. Ethnology. 126 BUEEAU OF AMEEICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. Ill spaced between these are four units composed of parallel dotted lines. In two of the latter the dots are along the top edges and in the other two they are along the bottom. The heavy concentric circles in the bottom of the bowl add to the embellishment of the vessel and com- plete the decoration. The simpler design, 5, has the same plan as that of c, but it was not carried to such an elaborate conclusion. There are four units of checker pattern placed at opposite sides of the bowl. These are connected, or separated according to
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 126 BUEEAU OF AMEEICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. Ill spaced between these are four units composed of parallel dotted lines. In two of the latter the dots are along the top edges and in the other two they are along the bottom. The heavy concentric circles in the bottom of the bowl add to the embellishment of the vessel and com- plete the decoration. The simpler design, 5, has the same plan as that of c, but it was not carried to such an elaborate conclusion. There are four units of checker pattern placed at opposite sides of the bowl. These are connected, or separated according to the way one looks at the decoration, by four panels consisting of five heavy paral- lel lines running horizontally along the walls of the bowl from checker unit to checker unit. The decorations on both of these bowls, as well as the vessels themselves, are typically Little Colorado in character, especiallv of the district from St. Johns to Showlow and a b Figure 29.—Decorations from black-on-red bowls Hachured figures were not as extensively used by themselves as were the solid elements. They were favored to a certain extent, however. A typical example is /, Plate 36. In this design, as in most of the others in this style, the hachured figures are of the rec- tilinear fret form placed in a band around the walls of the vessel. This style hatching is that of the Chaco. There are three figures in the decoration. Two are of the double fret while the third is a single symbol of that type. Had the two double figures been painted on a smaller scale the potter would have had room for a third complete fret of the same kind, but failure to give sufficient consideration to the amount of space available necessitated the use of the single form. Band patterns in which contrasting elements were used are illus- trated in Figure 29. The design a is composed of eight units, four of which are made up of a series of parallel lines. The solid por-. Please note that these images are ex
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