. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . ottery with that of the Sikyatki ware shows how inferior the a The majority of forms of ancient Tusayan ware are well I^rowii to archeologists throughthe Keam collection, some of the more striking specimens of hich have been figured by MrHolmes in previous reports of the Bureau of Ethnology. 70 TWO SUMMERS WORK IN ITKHLO RUINS [ ass. 22 foniier is to the latter. A deeperstudy confirms this conclusion. No-where in the pueblo region has theceramic ai-t i-eached the high positionit attained
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . ottery with that of the Sikyatki ware shows how inferior the a The majority of forms of ancient Tusayan ware are well I^rowii to archeologists throughthe Keam collection, some of the more striking specimens of hich have been figured by MrHolmes in previous reports of the Bureau of Ethnology. 70 TWO SUMMERS WORK IN ITKHLO RUINS [ ass. 22 foniier is to the latter. A deeperstudy confirms this conclusion. No-where in the pueblo region has theceramic ai-t i-eached the high positionit attained in Tusayan In prehistorictimes, ihis development may be duein part to the cliaracter of the materialused, but it is mainlj owing to theartistic instinct of the ancient both the character of the paleog-raphy and the texture the ware of theI^ittle Colorado ruins is more like Zuni1 han llopi work. The ancient puebloson the Zuni river, a tributary of theLittle Colorado, closelj^ resemble thoseabout Winslow and at the mouth ofChevlon fork, but their pottery is asa rule inferior. Human Figures. Fio. 24. Footprints on Inside of a ifrom Homolobi (number 15*5690). Pictures of human beings were verjrarely found in the excavations atthe Little Colorado ruins. This rarityconforms with resultsfrom other ruins,described by other archeologists, sothat the author suspects that delinea-tions of the human figure, of whichseveral were found at Sikjatki, indi-cate a late stage in the evolution ofpotteiy decoration in ancient drawings of human beings whichhave been found are for the most partof the rudest possible character, show-ing no elaboration such as would beexpected if they had been used manygenerations for decoration. But a single complete figure of ahuman being on pottery was ex-humed in ISOG, and that was on thehandle of a ladle from Chevlon. Thespecimen (figure 13) represents awoman with left arm lifted high abovethe head. It has been identified asthe figure of a wom
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