TUSAYAN
WHITE WARE
--> KAYENTA
BLACK_ON_WHITE
--> BLACK
MESA BLACK-ON-WHITE
--> DOGOSZHI
BLACK-ON-WHITE
--> FLAGSTAFF
BLACK-ON-WHITE
--> KANA-A
BLACK-ON-WHITE
--> SOSI
BLACK-ON-WHITE
--> TUSAYAN
BLACK-ON-WHITE
SOSI BLACK-ON-WHITE
DESCRIPTION
CORE: Construction: by coiling. Fired: in reducing atmosphere.
Core: dark gray to light gray. Carbon streak: fairly common Temper:
abundant fine quartz sand Vessel walls: strong. Texture core:
fine. Fracture: shattering or slightly crumbling. Surface finish:
both surfaces bowls, exterior surface jars, compacted or coated
with thin white slip; bowl interiors, jar exteriors moderately
polished; scraping marks visible on unpolished, sometimes on polished
surfaces. Surface color: bluish white, or pearl gray. Forms: bowls,
dippers (rare), jars. Thickness bowls: 3.2 to 6.7 mm. Decoration:
painted, width of lines range 6 to 8 mm. Paint: black, sometimes
brownish. Pigment: carbon. Designs: bold and free, suggestive
of Black Mesa Style; Style A: (predominates) horizontal stripes
make up major part of design, with large solid areas, triangles
frequent, stepped elements, interlocking scrolls rare; Style B:
striped or wide line width with large solid triangles, simply
or in series, strongly suggestive of the barbed lines on Flagstaff
Black-on-white, but heavier and bolder; the decoration of both
styles covers most of the bowl interior; bowl exteriors are undecorated;
rims are undecorated; jar decoration is confined to the neck and
upper body.
COMPARISON: Flagstaff Black-on-white, somewhat less bold in treatment,
very frequent; pinnate lines and coarse cross-hatching frequent;
often rather less well polished. Width of lines average 3.5 mm
while Sosi Black-on-white has wider lines averaging 6.7 mm. Holbrook
Black-on-white has dark gray paste, temper of white angular fragments,
and a surface with a heavy white slip. Escavada and Puerco Black-on-white
have mineral paint. Black Mesa Black-on-white treatment is somewhat
less bold an d execution less precise, elements are more closely
massed, pendent dots and continuous rows of solid triangles are
frequent.
RANGE: northeastern Arizona.
