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DESCRIPTION
CORE: Construction: by coiling and scraping. Fired: finally in oxidizing
atmosphere. 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. Surface finish: bowl
surfaces sometimes bumpy, polished on interior and sometimes exterior;
scraping marks often conspicuous on exterior; sometimes compacted.
Surface color: maroon red slip, surface color and core contrast
only where slipped. Slip: bowl interiors always completely slipped,
jars slipped exterior, no slip interior, base frequently unslipped.
Fire clouds: common. Forms: jars predominate, bowls uncommon, bowls
have horizontal handle. Thickness: jars: 3.8 to 7.6 mm; average
5.5 mm. Painted decoration: black and white. Pigments: black: manganese,
white: kaolin, red: hematite. Decoration: bowl interiors: black
stripes and hachures or rectangular cross-hachures in rectangular
or triangular panels, stripes and panels outlined with narrow white
line; exterior: if unslipped, sometimes horizontal red stripes encircling
vessel jar below rim; rim usually black painted line; jar decoration
exterior only, black stripes, solid stepped elements, horizontal
or diagonal hachures in rectangular, triangular, circular, or stepped
panels; wide staggered lines in series in horizontal panels; hatched
panels, framed in black lines of about same width as hachures; stripes,
panels, solid elements outlined by narrow white lines; rims usually
black painted lines.
RANGE: Center of production is believed to be Marsh Pass and Tsegi
Canyons, Navajo County, Arizona. Widely trade+d.
DESCRIPTION
CORE: Construction:
Fired: Core: Carbon streak: Temper: Vessel walls: Texture core:
Fracture: Surface finish: Surface color: Form:
Thickness: Decoration: COMPARISON: RANGE:
DESCRIPTION
CORE: Construction:
Fired: Core: Carbon streak: Temper: Vessel walls: Texture core:
Fracture: Surface finish: Surface color: Form:
Thickness: Decoration: COMPARISON: RANGE:
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