pottery types of the southwes1

Museum of Northern Arizona
Ceramic Series No.3'[lSJ
POTTERY TYPES OF THE
SOUTHWES1-'
EDITED BY HAROLD S. COLTON
Wares SA, lOA, lOB, 12A
San Juan Red Ware
Mesa Verde Gray, and White Ware
San Juan White Ware
By
LELAND J. ABEL
Flagstaff, Arizona
Published by
Northern A,.izona Society
of Science and Art
October IS, I 95 5
October IS, 1955
Ware 12A - Type
CHAPIN BLACK-ON-WHITE (New Type)
SYNONYM:
La Plata Black-on-white (in part).
DESCRIBED BY:
Leland Abel.
NAMED BY:
Leland Abel.
EXAMPLES:
Museum, Mesa Verde National Park. Colorado.
TYPE SITE:
STAGE:
TIME:
Site 145. Mesa Verde National Park. Colorado.
Basketmaker I I I - Pueblo I.
ca 500-850 A.D.
DESCRIPTION: Constructed: by coi I ing and scraping.
Core color: I ight to
dark gray.
Fired: in reducing atmosphere.
Temper: crushed rock.
usually andesite or diorite. Core texture: coarse to medium.
Vessel
walls: strong.
Surf,ace finish: scraped. not polished.
Finish IS
rather smooth. but with occasional grains of temper on the surface.
Interiors of bowls usually better finished than exteriors. Occasional
streaks where grains of temper have been dragged across the surface
during scraping.
Surface color: light gray to white, occasionally a
creamy white.
Fire clouds common.
Thickness of wal Is: maximum 7.5
mm .• minimum 2.5 mm .• average about 4.5 mm.
Forms: bowls. large jars
with elongated tapering necks. pitchers. half-gourd ladles. and seed
Paint: mineral. Decoration: recti linear designs.
bowls. Rims: IA3.
Design elements usually cut across the InterIor of bowls. dividing the
bowl into two. three or four parts. No banding lines.
Design sparse.
leaving large undecorated areas.
Occasional life forms.
Occasionally found with fugitive red exteriors.
COMPARISONS: Same as Twin Trees Black-on-white except for the lack of
polishing.
Same as La Plata Black-on-white except for the use of
crushed rock temper instead of sand.,
Same as Lino Black-on-gray except for use of crushed rock temper and the use of minerai rather than
carbon paint.
RANGE: North of the San Juan River.
rado.
from the Animas westward to the Colo-
REMARKS: This type of pottery has usually been classified as La Plata
Black-on-whlte. even though the La Plata definition gives the temper
as sand.
The creation of a new type for the crushed rock-tempered
pottery conforms with the standard tempering techniques from north of
the San Juan. and serves to allow differentiation of types from sites
north and south of the river.
Ware 12A
Type
October
1955
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CHAPIN BLACK-aN-WHITE
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