WUPATKI PUEBLO: A STUDY IN CULTURAL FUSION AND ...

individual figurines, or were attached as small ornamental
pieces to the rims and handles of pottery* They are appar­
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ently all of Tularosa Black-on-white, and this style of pot­
tery often does have such ornamental lugs attached to bowl
and Jar rims and handles* The figures, impossible to identify,
are slipped and painted with black iron paint. Two have
horizontal black stripes running down their backs, while
the third specimen is covered with a series of cross-hatched
lines, forming squares, each of which contains a dot. Bach
figure was formed as a tube, and has a projecting snout,
mouth pointed downward, two vertically projecting ears or
antlers, and at least two legs. They are now 3-*+•2 cm. in
length, 1-1.^ cm. in diameter, and stand at least 1.? cm.
high at the shoulder.
Provenience. Room 7? Trash, near rooms 10-15 (2).
Distribution. Tularosa Black-on-white dates at
about 1100-1250, and the lugs may have been broken off of
such Mogollon vessels and traded into the Wupatki area.
The individual animal figurine was a typical Salado ceramic -
trait (Mc»Gregor 19^1: 78), and they are also noted through­
out the Mogollon sequence (Wheat 1955- 105-06? Martin et al.
1956s 120). The Wupatki figures do not resemble the Prescott
animal figurines illustrated by Scott (i960, Fig* 3). Judd
notes that modern Hopi and Zuni peoples deposit unflred clay