. Bulletin. Ethnology. 152 BURKAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 65 B. SLAB-HOUSE CULTURE As was stated in the description of the site, the lower levels of the debris in Fhiteplayer House (Ruin 5) contained pottery quite dift'erent from the normal Kayenta wares of the upper strata. Unfortunately^ the lower deposits had been so soaked by seepage that all perishable material in them had rotted away; our charac- terization of the culture is, therefore, necessarily based, until other and drier sites shall be discovered, upon the architecture (see pp. 42-44), the pottery, and the utensils of stone an
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 152 BURKAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 65 B. SLAB-HOUSE CULTURE As was stated in the description of the site, the lower levels of the debris in Fhiteplayer House (Ruin 5) contained pottery quite dift'erent from the normal Kayenta wares of the upper strata. Unfortunately^ the lower deposits had been so soaked by seepage that all perishable material in them had rotted away; our charac- terization of the culture is, therefore, necessarily based, until other and drier sites shall be discovered, upon the architecture (see pp. 42-44), the pottery, and the utensils of stone and bone. VOTTVAIY. Two wares make up the body of the collection: black-and-white and black; besides these there are three sherds of a redvvare, very similar to if not identical with the redware with shining paint described in the cliff-house section. As it is pos- sible that these red sherds may have AAorkod d()^^n from above, it is per- haps best to accept them only provi- sionally as belonging to the slab-house group. l)LACK-AND-WHiTE WARE.—The body of this pottery is markedly granular in cross section and contains consider- ably more tempering material than does Kayenta black-and-white. The slip is yellowish white and the ])igment a slaty shade of black Sherds were found of ollas, bowls, and of a single specimen of a sort of goblet, appear to have had a full but rather "squatty" body and gracefully curved neck (fig. 70, a; pi. 63, a). There is no evidence of handles. Decoration, in the specimens at hand, consists of several horizontal bands about the neck and body. Boirls.—T^ittle can be said as to shape, as all the bowl sherds recovered are too small to permit of even tentative reconstruction. The rims are direct (?'. c. Avith no incurve or outcurve), and have rounded edges which are left plain (not painted black, as in Chaco Canyon bowls; nor " ticked " with dots, as in Mesa Verde examples). There seem to have been no handles. The slip covers the who
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