. Bulletin. Ethnology. EGBERTS] VILLAGE OF THE GREAT KIVAS 113 the body. Pitchers have two forms of decoration. One style sepa- rates the vessel into two main zones, the neck and the body. The other treats the vessel as a whole. The mugs were painted with a broad band design, extending around the central portion of the body, bordered by heavy framing lines above and below. An example of a balanced design composed entirely of solid figures is shown by the jar, Plate 24, c. This form of decoration was so widespread in its distribution that it is difficult to assign it to any one group or distric
. Bulletin. Ethnology. EGBERTS] VILLAGE OF THE GREAT KIVAS 113 the body. Pitchers have two forms of decoration. One style sepa- rates the vessel into two main zones, the neck and the body. The other treats the vessel as a whole. The mugs were painted with a broad band design, extending around the central portion of the body, bordered by heavy framing lines above and below. An example of a balanced design composed entirely of solid figures is shown by the jar, Plate 24, c. This form of decoration was so widespread in its distribution that it is difficult to assign it to any one group or district. Similar examples have been found along the San Juan, in the Chaco, and at many Little Colorado sites. The method of combining solid and hachured figures to form a pleasing decoration is illustrated by the drawing, Figure 19. The main elements in this design are interlocking frets, a form of pat- tern widely used during the Pueblo III era. The hachured portion is particularly interesting because it illustrates a combination of two styles. The characteristic hachure of the Chaco Canyon wares is marked by the use of oblique composing lines and that of the Upper Gila by lines running parallel to the borders of the figure. In the decoration on this jar both forms appear. This illus- trates a point mentioned pre- viously, namely, that in some instances there apparently was a fusion between two styles of ceramic art. The rectilinear „ „ Figure 19.—Pattern on black-on-white jar iret figures repeated around the neck of the jar are common on vessels of this type. A variation frequentl}'- found has an interlocking feature, so that the design forms a continuous band. A fragment from such a vessel bearing that type of ornamentation was found by Hodge during the course of his excavations around the circular kivas which he uncovered near Hawikuh. Portions of other large jars from that site bear combina- tion hachured and solid decorations very suggestive of that depicted in Figure 19
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