El Palacio . acts m turquois mosaic, fab-rics and stone, also manifest the extent towhich the ancient habitants gave expres- sion to their esthetic taste. Earthenwarevessels cover such a wide range in formand embellishment that little can be saidof them in this brief space, although theyafford the chief means of approaching astudy of the development of Hawikuhculture and to some extent of determin-ing its relations to that of other sedentarytribes. We can merely say now thatthe earliest pottery of Hawikuh consistsof (1) a red or red orange ware decoratedwith a neatly applied geometric patterni
El Palacio . acts m turquois mosaic, fab-rics and stone, also manifest the extent towhich the ancient habitants gave expres- sion to their esthetic taste. Earthenwarevessels cover such a wide range in formand embellishment that little can be saidof them in this brief space, although theyafford the chief means of approaching astudy of the development of Hawikuhculture and to some extent of determin-ing its relations to that of other sedentarytribes. We can merely say now thatthe earliest pottery of Hawikuh consistsof (1) a red or red orange ware decoratedwith a neatly applied geometric patternin green or black glaze, and, in the caseof the bowls, usually with a simple geo-metric pattern in flat white on the outersurface, beneath the rim. Next in lineof development was (2) the applicationof a white slip on the same kind of ware,the retention of the glazed geometric de-sign for some time, followed by a freerembellishment m the form of zoomorphicand other figures, still in glaze, and by the EL PALACIO. A Typical Dwelling with its Fireplace and well Plastered Walls. inlrodudtion of flat red in associationtherewith; then (3) the gradual disap-pearance of the glazed ornamentation andthe substitution of flat colors entirely, us-ually on an orange or yellowish ground,in the producftion of excellently drawnpatterns of highly conventionalized de-signa, especially of birds, clouds, early polychrome ware is usuallyquite thin and symmetric. During theperiod represented by it and by the sec-ondary glaze referred to (2), still in pre-Spanish times, cremation was practised,but during the period of the earhestglaze (1), inhumation was the custom,the body being buried with the head al-most invariably toward the north or thesouth. Following the period last men-tioned, the pottery became heavier, andwith somewhat coarser and bolder deco-rations (4), as if the climax in Hawikuhearthenware had already been the pottery that now came mto vogue,still entirely polychrome,
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