ALMEDA BROWN WARE

--> RIO DE FLAG BROWN

--> RIO DE FLAG SMUDGED

--> WINONA BROWN

--> ANGELL BROWN

--> YOUNGS BROWN

--> TURKEY HILL RED

--> SUNSET RED

--> GRAPEVINE BROWN

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WINONA BROWN
DESCRIPTION:
CORE: Constructed: by paddling. Color: gray to dark brown usually well-fired. Fired: in oxidizing atmosphere.
TEMPER: Abundant very coarse rounded or crushed volcanic tuff, gray, white, buff, or reddish; occasional minute quartz crystals, sometimes few grains volcanic sand. Texture: coarse
WALLS: Weak to medium strong. Thickness: 3 to 15 mm, average 6.5 mm Fracture: ragged, seldom crumbling.
SURFACE: Finish: outside smoothed, never slipped, wiping marks often prominent; interiors almost never polished or finished, anvil marks conspicuous even in bowls. Color: exterior and interior bowls and jars, buff, orange, to dark brown to dark gray (near black); interiors rarely smudged black. Fire clouds: common.
FORMS: Jars predominate, bowls, shallow plates, odd forms such as rectangular bowls rare; Gila shoulder present in many vessels
DECORATION: none.