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this was done the vessel was decorated with various crude designs. It was then put into an open fire smothered with wood, corncobs, pine needles and grasses so that the heat would be retained. This was their method of firing. When a vessel was removed from the fire and the ashes wiped off, a dirty white background with black designs appeared. There were several different types of this ware made at Frijoles. Today we call this pottery a black-on-white ware. The most common type known to the archaeologist today is Biscuit ware. It is so-called because it

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• k and porous. These Indians made flat squatty bowls, and ollasÑthe common wide-necked jars. These were inferior types and not nearly as goo
• d pottery as was made by other Indian women at other villages. It was tempered with soft volcanic ash. Tiny particles were worked into the sof
• t clay to keep it from cracking and resulted in
• a soft powdery ware which was easily broken. I

t is possible that these women were not very well satisfied with their pottery made from local materials. The same thing was true at all the villages on the Pajarito. When water was put in the jars and bowls they became soft. It certainly was not a satisfactory type of ware. And the Indian women might have been very much ashamed. Pottery making was their work, their art and their pride. But

the materials in this country simply did not make good hard pottery despite the ability of any individual potter. However, the Keres women made good hard pottery. They had the clays and the tempers with which to work. They were still making the ware with the slick red finish and glaze designs on the outside which was developed in the Little Cblorado district of western New Mexico and eastern Arizona. They were even making the polychromes or multi-colored wares by this time. Trading this pottery might have been the solution to the problem of the Tewas even after the Keres-speaking people had been driven from the Tyuonyi. New generatio

ns of Keres might have had a different way of looking at things. Although the red glaze ware had become coarse and heavy by this time, it surpassed the soft Biscuit wares made by these valley women. They were probably glad to accept it in trade. From about 1400 A.D. all thro

ugh to the abandonment of Frijoles Canyon, the glaz

e wares were present. The glazes did not stop here but are found at Tewa villages far to the north. These people, too, had been making the same soft ware as did the dwellers in the Frijoles. So it does appear that some sort of a r

elationship could have existed between Keres and Tewa speaking groups of people even during these late