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��grayish slips which tend to "crackle," and are also soft and easily worn away. Undecorated surfaces are well, sometimes highly, polished red. Ornamentation is in dull black (fig. 20, g) with occa- sional red elements (fig. 20, b). Fragments average one-fourth inch in thickness.

3. THIN THREE-COLOR PAINTED WARE

This class is quite different from the former one. The shapes are: ollas (form not ascertainable) ; and bowls. Of the latter there

are two varieties: (a) Similar to, though ap- parently smaller than, the bowls of the thick painted ware, rims high and recurved (fig. 19, a) ; (b) Small, deep bowls with rather flat bottoms (fig. 19, b). The pottery itself is extraordinarily hard and was evidently very highly fired; most pieces are dark gray in cross-section. The sur- faces are not well finish- ed, appearing to have been merely wiped with a cloth or scraped with a piece of gourd rind, rather than to have been worked over with a pol- ishing stone. The color of the bowl walls (wheth- er or not it is a slip is

Fig. 20. Decoration of painted ware. doubtful) is Warm yel-

low to orange. The

lower sides and bottoms, both within and without, are carelessly smeared over with a thin red wash, through which the yellow base-

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