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Title: Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: United States. War Dept Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887 United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Subjects: Pacific railroads Discoveries in geography Natural history Indians of North America
Publisher: Washington : A.O.P. Nicholson, printer (etc.)
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: California State Library Califa/LSTA Grant

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parently, after the vessel had been baked ;while in one very old fragment the white figures look like enamel, or pieces of embedded shell. No. 16. Outside of a vessel, whose interior had been ornamented with black and red lines. INDIAN POTTERY. 49 The fragments a, b, c, d, are from the ruins of a pueblo on the Little Colorado.Plate 40 represents fragments in which two colors only are chiefly used—black or brown lineson a light-grey ground, and mostly the natural tint of the clay.No. 1. From the big bend of Flax river.No. 2. Part of the neck of a vessel.Nos. 3 and 4. From Flax river. Nos. 5 and 6. Found near camp 70, in the vicinity of Zuni. They are modern, and inappearance and hardness approach to our stoneware. No. 7. A minute fragment, and observable only for its minute squares. No. 8. Ornamented on the opposite side with white lines on a dark ground. Nos. 10 and 11. From Colorado Chiquito. No. 11 is from the upper part of a bowl whoseedge is tapered and neatly rounded, Plate 40.
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Aucient Indian pottery. The remaining four fragments are of the natural color of the coarse clay of which they havebeen made. They display attempts at ornament, by incrusting and otherwise-marking the sur-7 i 50 POTTERY.—WEAPONS OF THE COLORADO INDIANS. face, much on the plan of the restored vase in plate 38 ; though not one of the numerous speci-mens, from which the ahove have been selected, approaches to it either in design or execution. No. 9. A portion of a large vase from Cosnino caves. The surface is broken by thin andnarrow strips overlapping each other like continuous rows of shingles, or rather tiles; for depres-sions have been made in succession, by a tool, which, from the fine lines left by it, may have beena shell. These strips appear to have been laid on after the body of the vase had been hardenedin the sun, and, as each was put on, the ribbed tool was used to press it down to its place. No. 15 is another specimen on the same plan, much corroded. It is from the big ben

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