. Bulletin. Ethnology. 122 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 92 painted on the walls of caves and on near-by This bowl also illustrates another variety of the quadrate form of decoration. The panels which marked off the field for decoration into four segments were composed of elements which are quite characteristic of both textile and ceramic designs. This element is observed frequently and many of the fragments of pottery from the Chaco village showed portions of designs in which it had been used. The char- acteristic circle drawn in the bottom of the bowl is very apparent in this
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 122 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 92 painted on the walls of caves and on near-by This bowl also illustrates another variety of the quadrate form of decoration. The panels which marked off the field for decoration into four segments were composed of elements which are quite characteristic of both textile and ceramic designs. This element is observed frequently and many of the fragments of pottery from the Chaco village showed portions of designs in which it had been used. The char- acteristic circle drawn in the bottom of the bowl is very apparent in this specimen. It is quite likely that the other half of the vessel contained similar figures. That the missing portion had been di- vided by a panel is shown in the traces of the latter which are present near the central Fig. 32.—Painted design from half of a bowl The use of life figures in the decoration of bowls is not at all surprising because such representations frequently are found on baskets of the preceding It is quite apparent that from the beginning of the manufacture of painted vessels both geometric and life forms were used in decoration and that the two forms existed side by side. That one did not grow out of the other or result from it in the early development of southwestern designs is certain. Another interesting feature is that practically all of the life figures on the pottery of the early prehistoric periods are almost identical with the drawings on the cliffs throughout the area. In very late times, it is true, life forms became highly convention- alized, and there are the many so-called bird symbols on the Rio 77 Kidder and Guernsey, Archeological Explorations, pp. 197-198, figs. 100, 101, pi. 96, a, b. The writer has observed such figures in several places along Montezuma Creek in southeastern Utah. The latter were pecked into the rock, however, and not painted. They were close to Basket Maker III sites in each instance. 78 Pepper, Ancien
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