Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . Fig. 2-1—Old Zuui vase. process, unless it be the regular time for baking pottery during thesummer solstice ceremonies. The pieces to Ije tired are placed uponstones to raise them a few inches from the ground, and an oven ofdried manure from the sheep and goat pens is built around and o\erthem. The fire is carefully managed in order to produce a gradualheating, after which the entire mass is subjected to an intense heatuntil the baking is completed, the process usually requiring one or twohours.
Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . Fig. 2-1—Old Zuui vase. process, unless it be the regular time for baking pottery during thesummer solstice ceremonies. The pieces to Ije tired are placed uponstones to raise them a few inches from the ground, and an oven ofdried manure from the sheep and goat pens is built around and o\erthem. The fire is carefully managed in order to produce a gradualheating, after which the entire mass is subjected to an intense heatuntil the baking is completed, the process usually requiring one or twohours. A bit of wafer bread is deposited in each vase, so that thespirit of the vase may l)e fed with the spiritual essence of the CO UJ > Q. oICO STEVENSON] ARTS AND INDUSTRIKS 377 It is believed that .should a progiiaiit woman look upon a piece of pot-tery while in process of tiring, it will be marred with a black the Zuuis account foi- the blemishes caused by the smoking of thepottery. Much of the modern pottery is decorated with animal forms, withan attempt to depict them as such, while biixls and animals in theancient ware are so highly conventionalized that onlj- the initiated candetermine the original of the motive. Figure 24 shows a very oldvase decorated with conventionalized l)utterfly and cloud and rain sym-bols, while the more modern style of vases are presented in figure 25.
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