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Title: Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Ethnology Indians
Publisher: Washington : U. S. Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Kahle/Austin Foundation and Omidyar Network

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l figures from simple forms. There are also evidences of theirorigin by conventionalization of more elaborate patterns throughsymbolism. The design on the food basin shown in figure 38 is unique and highlyinstructive in one important feature. Encircling bands or lines onspecimens of ancient pottery are ordinarily broken at one point, as 84 TWO SUMMERS WORK IN PUEBLO RUINS can readily be seen by an examination of figures in tlie report onSilcyatki pottery, as well as in the present memoir. The design beforeus has three breaks in these encircling bands. The break in theinterior band is complicated bj^ the addition of well-known terracedfigures. By modification in form and by the interlocking of theseappendages we pass easily to some of the most complicated geomet-rical patterns of Pueblo pottery. A modification of the broken line about a vase appeai-s in thespecimen shown in plate xxxvir-. In this instance we find the bandcontinued into two narrow extensions, which interlock l)Ut do uot
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Fig. 39. Geometriral desi.sni!^ on a food howl from Chaves pass (number 1.57.i39). join. The figure which is thus formed is a common one in geomet-rical ornamentation, as maj be seen by an examination of the manybeautiful pieces of potteiy obtained from the ruins in all parts ofArizona. Not less instructive than the last-mentioned in a study of geomet-rical ornamentation is the design in figure .SO. The spiral figures ontwo of the bands show a modification of the broken lines which arecharacteristic, and the S-shaped ornaments on one of the other bandsare common on ancient pueblo ware. FF.AVKES) MOSAICS FROM THK LITTLE COLORADO RUINS 85 A coiiibinatiioii of oliliinic Vntos and fret, sliown in fiyurc 40, is themost unusual design in the (•ollections which it has been the authorsfortune thus far to examine. The same design is worked in a basketfrom the same ruin (figure (i3). The design figured on the interior of the food l)Owl sliown in fig-ure 41 isunique,reminding oneof a swastilva

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