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 POLYCHROME
DESCRIPTION
CORE: Construction: by coiling. Fired: finally in oxidizing atmosphere. Core: black to gray, dark brown to brick-red. 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 decorated surfaces compacted. Surface color: orange, color surface and core usually do not contrast. Slip: bands of slip on outside of bowls. Fire clouds: common. Forms: bowls, dippers, jars; bowls generally have horizontal handle. Thickness bowls: 2.8 to 7.7 mm; average 5.5 mm. jars: 3.7 to 5.2 mm; average 4.5 mm. Paint: black and red. Decoration: Style A: broad red bands of slip outline interior of bowls, no hachures. Style B: interior bowls, exterior jars have red, vertical, horizontal, and diagonal stripes, often encircling stripe just below rim on bowl exteriors; black narrow lines outlining red areas on bowl interiors, horizontal and diagonal hachures in rectangular or triangular panels between red areas, narrow horizontal lines in series, wide staggered lines, vertical lines in series with staggered lines between; bowl exterior one to three wide horizontal stripes just below rim; rims usually red or black.

COMPARISON: Tusayan Polychrome Style A and Citadel Polychrome are much alike and frequently confused if sherds are small and basic design inside bowls is alike. Citadel Polychrome bowls never have horizontal handles, outside of bowl is slipped although a small area on bottom may be left unslipped while Tusayan Polychrome has outside mostly unslipped, being decorated with one or two wide bands of red. Tusayan Polychrome Style B on bowls may be confused with Cameron Polychrome which has hachures in black similar in style to Tusayan Black-on-red on areas left free of slip, has a slipped exterior and never a horizontal handle.
RANGE: Northern Arizona from the San Juan to Little Colorado, east to Chinle Creek. Fairly common trade type.