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Title: Annual report. 1st-12th, 1867-1878
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) United States. General Land Office United States. Dept. of the Interior
Subjects: Geology
Publisher: Washington, Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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rm and color can be described more readily in connection withthe examples given in the plates. PLATE XLIV. This plate is intended to illustrate the corrugated and indented ware.Heretofore specimeusof this class have been quite rare, as it is not madeby any of the modern tribes. Figure 1 represents one of a pair of large vessels exhumed from theruins of the sixteen-windowed cliff-house of the Rio Mancos. It has acapacity of about three gallons, and was probably used for carrying orkeeping on hand a supply of water. It is quite light, not weighingmore than a common wooden pail, and is made of a light-gray clay tem-pered with coarse sand, and but slightly burned. The corrugated ap-pearance is given by laying on strips of clay, in somewhat regular suc-cession, and pressing them into place and indenting them with thethumb or a stick. Whether a thin shell of clay is first constructed andthe strips laid on and pressed down so as to unite with it, or whether U.S.GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. PLATE XLIV.
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W.IT.Eolitves, dei.& lith. . Sinclair t Son., 1877. ANCIENT POTTERY- holmes) ANCIENT POTTERY. 405 the vessel is built up by the strips alone, canuot be determined, sincethe inside is perfectly smooth, excepting finger-marks, and the stripsare so welded into the general texture of the vessel that individualstrips cannot be detected beneath the surface when examined on brokenedges. In the specimen figured the workman has begun near the centre ofthe rounded bottom and laid a strip in a continuous but irregular spiral(see Fig. 3) until the rim was reached, indenting the whole surface ir-regularly with the finger. A smooth recurved rim has then been addedin a very skilful manner. Two small conical bits of clay have been setin near the rim, as if for ornament. The companion piece has a smallscroll-shaped ornament similarly placed.. Figure 2 shows the manner in which the spiral is started on the bot-tom of the vessel. In some cases the crimping or indenting beginswith the spiral, but in

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