TSEGI ORANGE WARE

--> MEDICINE BLACK-ON-RED

--> TUSAYAN BLACK-ON-RED

--> CAMERON POLYCHROME

--> CITADEL POLYCHROME

--> TSEGI RED-ON-ORANGE

--> TSEGI BLACK-ON-ORANGE

--> TSEGI POLYCHROME

--> TUSAYAN POLYCHROME

--> KAYENTA POLYCHROME

--> KIET SIEL POLYCHROME

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TUSAYAN BLACK-ON-RED
DESCRIPTION: CORE: Construction: by coiling and scraping. Fired: in oxidizing atmosphere. Core: black to gray; dark brown (rare) to brick red. Carbon streak: common. Temper: sand and sherd. Vessel walls: medium strong to strong. Texture core: fine. Surface finish: bowls sometimes bumpy; polished, horizontal polishing marks conspicuous around vessel; both surfaces bowls, exterior surface jar forms slipped; slip generally thick with temper extruding; slip flakes off large areas of heavily weathered sherds leaving core mottled with temper; slip frequently weathered away. Surface color: red; interior jar surfaces sometimes gray to tan; color surface and core contrast. Fire clouds: common. Forms: bowls, canteens, seed-jars, jars (rare), dippers. Thickness: jars: 3.1 to 6.7 mm; average 5.0 mm, bowl walls uniform thickness, seed-jars: 2.7 to 5.7 mm; average 4.5 mm. Decoration: painted: black, occasionally reddish brown, generally dull, flat, rarely metallic sheen, often reflects light, frequently takes off excessively weathered specimens. Pigment: manganese. Patterns: geometric, rarely encircling lines under rim, motifs usually pendant from rim, rim sometimes painted all around, sometimes only where motif is pendent. Elements: narrow and wide lines only, straight or wavy, horizontal or diagonal in squares, triangles or curved panels; horizontal encircling vertically or diagonally in series; hachure and frame lines about same width. Dogoszhi style.
COMPARISON: Medicine Black-on Red has, usually, solid areas for decoration, rarely narrow lines, never hachures. Middleton Black-on Red has sand or rock temper.
RANGE: Northern Arizona, San Juan to Little Colorado. Traded widely.