Chapter IV: Part 4

I do not wish in this place to dwell upon the details of pueblo ornament. A single example will serve to illustrate the origin and character of the leading decorative conceptions. Glancing through the series of vases illustrated under painted ware, we find that ninety-four out of one hundred designs are meanders, or are based upon the meander. Beginning with the simple waved or broken line we pass up through all grades of increasing complexity to chains of curvilinear and rectilinear meanders in which the links are highly individualized, being composed of a sigmoid line, terminating in reversed hooks; but in no case do we reach a loop in the curved forms or an intersection in the angular forms. The typical intersecting Greek fret does not therefore occur, nor, I may add, is it found anywhere in native American art.

The constructional characters of the art in which these linear forms developed, although they encouraged geometrical elaboration, forbade intersections or crossings of a line upon itself, and the genius of the decorator had never freed itself from this bondage. The forms imposed upon decoration by the textile art are _necessarily_ geometric and rectilinear, and their employment in other and less conventional arts, has been too limited to destroy or even greatly modify these characters.

The study of Pueblo art embodied in the preceding pages tells the simple story of the evolution of art--and especially of decorative art--in a period when the expanding mind of primitive man, still held in the firm grasp of instinctive and traditional methods--the bonds of nature--was steadily working out its æsthetic destiny.

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Abiquin, N. Mex., Pottery of 282
Acoma pottery 300
Age of pueblo ceramic art 267
American Naturalist on pottery 276
Animas Valley 315
Antiquity of coiled ware and white ware, Relative 358-359
Araqnaya coiled pottery 276
Arizona, Coiled ware from 279
pottery 291, 353-358
Art, Pueblo 266
Review, cited on coiled ware 279
Artist in ancient pottery, Freedom of 303
Avoca, N. C., Coiled pottery from 277
Aztec Springs ruin 319
Bandelier, A. F., on pueblo pottery 298
Barber, E. A., on Ute pottery 276-277
Basket marked pottery 282
Basketry a primitive art 359
Bottles 283, 301, 306, 320, 343, 345, 351, 352
Bowls 283, 306, 308-314, 316, 322-334
Brazilian Indian coiled pottery 276, 277
Burial of dead under dwellings 288
Burial of property with the dead 288

Cañon de Chelly, Pottery of 293, 319
Cave-houses 284-286, 293
Ceramic art, The 267
forms, Origin of 269
Chaco Valley 315
Character of Pueblo art 266
Chiquito, Colorado 306
Cihola pottery 297, 307, 316, 321, 343, 344, 356
Classification of pottery 272, 304, 306
Cliff-dwellers 304, 305
Cliff-dwellings 284-286, 293
Coil in ornamentation, The 278-282
Coiled ware and white ware, Relative antiquity of 358-359
imitated 299
Coiling of the Pueblos 273-275
Coil-made pottery 273-299
Color of coiled pottery 283
of designs in pottery 302
of Pueblo pottery 269
Colorado Chiquito 306
pottery 321-357
Indian pottery 276
plateau house sites 281
pottery 281, 305
ruin 319
Construction, Pueblo ceramic 268
Cooking, Pottery for 272, 283
Crimped coil on pottery 279, 280, 282
Cross, Ideographic 345
Cups 349

Distribution of Pueblo art 266
Domestic pottery 272, 283, 306
Dumont describes pottery 275, 276

Eccentric forms of pottery 283, 307, 353
Epsom Creek pottery, Utah 286-287
Execution of design in painted pottery 302

Fillmore, Utah, Pottery from grave at 292
Firing of Pueblo pottery 268
Flat heads 340
ornaments 271
Florida coiled pottery 277
Form in pottery, Origin of 269

Gila pottery 281, 283
Glaze of Pueblo pottery 268
Gourds copied in pottery 270, 306, 353
Guilloche 309
Handled vessels 271, 300, 314, 319, 325, 340
Hartt, Prof. C. F., on Indian pottery in Brazil 276
Humboldt, W. O., on coiled pottery of the Orinoco 276

Indented pottery patterns 280
Indian coiled pottery of Brazil 276
Individuality of pottery designs 305
Intaglio ornament 271

Jackson, Dr. Sheldon; Indian vases 357
Jackson, W.H., on pottery 287, 318, 319
Jones, Prof. Marcus E., on pottery of Utah 292

Kanab, Pottery from 281, 287, 310, 314
Keam, T. V., Pottery collection of 293, 296, 321, 330, 336, 348, 355
La Plata Valley 315
Life forms in pottery 283, 307, 353
Little Colorado, Pottery of the 283, 292, 321, 330
Louisiana, Coiled Indian ware in 275-276

McElmel Valley 315
Magalhaes, Dr., on coiled pottery of the Araguaya River 276
Mancos Valley 315
Material used in pottery 267, 283
Meander in ornament 359
Mended Pueblo pottery 286
Mexico, Coiled pottery from 277
Mindeleff, Victor, collected pottery 293, 311, 338
Miscellaneous ornamentation of pottery 283
Moki pottery 277, 290, 293, 299
Monteztuna Cañon 315, 318
Mormon town 287, 310
Mortuary pottery 272
Moss, Capt. John, on Ute pottery 276, 319
Mound village, Utah 287-288
Muge 307, 320, 347

National Museum, Pottery in 285, 287, 321, 331, 333, 357
Navajo pottery 299
Nelson, E. W., obtained pottery 279, 292, 353
Nevada, Pueblo pottery in 287
New Mexico pottery 282, 298
North Carolina coiled pottery 277
Nutria pottery 344

Ollas 283-287, 293, 306, 314, 318, 335
Origin of ceramic forms 269, 272
the coil 277
Orinoco, Coiled pottery of the 276
Ornament, Ceramic 271, 278-282, 303, 305, 337, 359

Painted pottery 302-307
Parowan pottery 292
Pitcher forms 307
Plain pottery 299-301
Pottery Catalogue of Jaines Stevenson 265
developed from basketry 359
mended by Pueblos 286
Property buried with the dead 288
Provo, Utah, Pottery from 321
Pueblo art 266
coiled ware 273-275
Putnam, Prof. F. W., cited 279

Relief ornament 271, 282
Rio de Chelley Valley 316
Dolores Valley 316
Gila pottery 281, 283, 299
Grande pottery 298, 305
Mancos cliff-houses 284-286
, Pottery of the 281, 284-286
Pecos, Pottery of the 298, 305
San Juan, Pottery of the 315-321
Virgen, Pottery of the 287-292, 307-315

Saint George tumulus, Utah,
Pottery from 281, 287-291, 300, 307, 312, 334
Saint John, Pottery from 305
Salt Lake City Museum, Pottery in 292, 300
Salt Lake Valley, Pottery of 292
San Antonio Springs, Pottery at 344
Juan pottery 274, 281, 284-287, 291
Santa Clara River, Pottery on 287
Santarem, Brazil, Coiled pottery at 276
Springerville, Ariz., Pottery at 279, 291, 305, 353
Stages of ornament for painted pottery 303-304
Stephen, John, on pottery 293
Stevenson, James, on pottery 265, 293, 357
Storage of water, Pottery for 284
Surface finish of Pueblo pottery 268

Tempering materials in pottery 267
Transportation, of water, Pottery for 284
Tusayan pottery 269, 279, 283, 294, 300, 304, 307, 311, 316, 321, 358

Utah pottery. (_See_ Saint George and
Springerville) 279, 286-291, 300
Ute pottery 276-277

Vases 301, 335-351
Vegetable forms copied in pottery 270
Village site mound or tumulus 287

Water, Pottery for transportation and storage of 284
White ware 269, 304, 305-358
and coiled ware, Relative antiquity of 358-359

Yarrow, Dr. H. C., obtained pottery in Utah 292
Yuma, Pottery of 300

Zuñi pottery 290, 293, 300, 333, 344

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Transcriber's Note:

Italics denoted by underscores.

Alternative spellings retained.

Punctuation normalized without comment.

Minor typos corrected without comment.

Image scaling factors (1/2 etc.) only usful for comparing relative sizes between objects, not actual sizes.