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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



KAYENTA POLYCHROME
DESCRIPTION
CORE: Construction: by coiling and scraping. Fired: finally in oxidizing atmosphere at end of firing period. Core: dark gray to light gray, brownish to pink. Temper: about equal amounts of quartz sand and crushed sherd. Vessel walls: medium strong to strong. Texture core: fine to medium. Surface finish: bowl surfaces sometimes bumpy, polished; scraping and polishing marks often visible sometimes compacted. Surface color: orange, color surface and core usually do not contrast except when core is gray. Slip: absent. Fire clouds: common. Forms: bowls have horizontal handle. Thickness: 3.6 to 7.3 mm; average 5.3 mm. Painted decoration: black, red and white. Red decoration: interior- vertical, horizontal, diagonal stripes; often an encircling stripe below rim. Black decoration: narrow line outlining red area, horizontal and diagonal hachures in rectangular or triangular panels between red areas; wide staggered lines between series of narrow lines. White decoration: usually narrow white lines outlining black lines; sometimes white outlines red areas; exterior sometimes undecorated but usually one to three red stripes encircling vessel.

COMPARISON: Tusayan Polychrome is essentially similar but without the white line decoration. (A similar type but with rock temper has been recognized and called Amusovi Polychrome.)

 

 
 

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Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona 86011-5200, USA.
email: anthrolab@nau.edu