Mohave Pottery Part 10

Base: Rounded.

Mouth diameter: 3.9 cm.

Depth: 18.2 cm.

Wall thickness range: (a) at rim, 4 to 5 mm.; (b) at a distance of 1 cm. below rim, 7 mm.; (c) at center of vessel base, 6 mm.

Additional features: None.

_Cups._--

Profile form types: VIII, IX, and X (the latter two types having annular bases).

Lip and rim types: Lip type A. Rim types 1 and 2, sometimes grading into 4 and 5 respectively.

Shoulders: Rounded.

Bases: Rounded, often with the addition of an annular base.

Mouth diameter range: 8.4 to 12.8 cm.

Depth range: 4.5 to 14.8 cm.

Wall thickness range: (a) at rim, 4 to 7 mm.; (b) at point of greatest incurve, 3 to 6 mm.; (c) at center of vessel base, 6 to 8.5 mm.

for cups without an annular base and 9 to 12 mm. for cups with an annular base.

Additional features:

Loop handles: (a) Nature of feature: single pottery loop per cup. (b) Placement: upper end of handle at rim of vessel; bottom edge of lower end of handle is from 3.6 to 7.5 cm. below rim. (c) Dimensions: range of maximum distance between inside surface of loop and exterior surface of the nearest part of vessel proper, 12.5 to 33.8 mm.; range of handle width (tangent to vessel) 11 to 30.9 mm.; range of handle thickness (perpendicular to vessel), 6 to 14.2 mm.

Loop handle edges can be cla.s.sified as to rim type: types 1, 2, 3, 5 occur.

Annular bases: (a) Nature of feature: a ring base is often characteristic of the cups, probably in imitation of such bases on chinaware. (b) Dimensions: diameter range, 5.8 to 7.1 cm.; thickness at ring rim, 4 to 8 mm. Lips of base ring are types D, E, F, or G. Rims of base ring are types 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5.

_Scoops without rattle handles._--

Profile form types: XI ranging to XII and, in one case, modified to XIII; type XIV represents the scoops with modeling.

Lip and rim types: Lip type B. Rim type 1, sometimes grading into rim type 4 at the lower, circular end of the scoop.

Shoulders: None.

Base: Rounded.

Diameter range: (a) for scoops without modeling, maximum length ranges from 10.9 to 22.6 cm. and maximum width ranges from 7.1 to 16.1 cm.; (b) for modeled scoops, maximum length ranges from 13.4 cm. to 27.8 cm.

and maximum width from 8.8 to 17.0 cm.

Depth range: (a) for scoops without modeling, depth ranges from 2.6 to 5.3 cm. when measured at the point of maximum length and 2.4 to 5.1 cm. when measured at the point of maximum width.

Wall thickness range: (presence or absence of modeling does not seem to correlate with any variation in wall thickness) (a) at rim, 4 to 5 mm.; (b) at a distance of 1 cm. below rim, 4.5 to 8.5 mm.; (c) at center of vessel base, 4.5 to 14 mm.

Additional features: None for the scoops without modeling, with the exception of one vessel which has a curved handle (see profile form type XIII) 42.1 mm. long. Scoops with modeling have two types of features:

"Keels": (a) Nature of feature: a keel-like ridge characterizes every scoop with modeling. (b) Placement: Along the exterior surface of the vessel, starting at the handle end and tapering in the amount of projection as it approaches the base of the scoop. (c) Dimensions: range of keel projection from surface proper of vessel, ca. 5 to ca. 15 mm. Keel lip is type G.

Keel rim is type 5. (d) Method of attachment: either molded from the coils of the vessel proper or affixed before firing.

"Eyes": (a) Nature of feature: round to oval lumps of clay occurring on most of the vessels having keels, and on no others.

(b) Placement: the two "eyes" are located on opposite sides of the keel at the juncture of the keel and the vessel proper on the handle of the scoop. (c) Dimensions: diameter of "eyes" ranges from 5 to 24 mm.; they project 2.7 to 8.3 mm. from the surface of the vessel. (d) Method of attachment: affixed before firing.

_Scoops with rattle handles._--Differ from scoops without rattle handles as follows.

Profile form types: range from XV to XVI.

Diameter range: range of maximum length, 12.2 to 18.9 cm.; of maximum width, 6.9 to 9.2 cm.

Depth range: at the point of maximum length, 3.1 to 6.4 cm.; at the point of maximum width, 2.8 to 3.3 cm.

Wall thickness range: (a) at rim, 3.5 to 6.6 mm.; (b) at a distance of 1 cm. below the rim, 4.5 to 8.5 mm.; (c) at center of vessel base, 5.5 to 9 mm.

Additional features: All rattle-handled scoops have the "eyes" and "keel" previously described.

Rattle handle: (a) Nature of feature: a single closed compartment containing some loose, small, hard objects (probably pebbles or pottery pellets). (b) Placement: located in the handle of the scoop and with its length oriented along the length of the handle. (c) Dimensions: compartment occupies less than one-half the total length of the vessel.

Its exact dimensions are uncertain, since none of the handles are broken open; probably the interior length ranges from ca. 30 to ca. 49 mm. and the interior width from ca. 32 to ca. 55 mm.

Decoration:

_Paint._--(a) Color: range of hue 7.5R to 2.5YR; range of value 2 to 5; range of chroma 2 to 8. Most common color: 10R 3/3 (a dark red). (b) Material: iron, from limonite. (c) Permanency: averages the same for interiors and exteriors of vessels. Approximately 50 per cent of the tests yielded a rating of 1, with the remaining 50 per cent about equally divided among ratings 2, 3, and 4. (d) Polishing over decoration: None.

_Design._--The reader is referred to the discussion of this subject by Kroeber in Part I.

COMPARISON

The reader is referred to the corresponding section for Parker Buff, Fort Mohave Variant.

RANGE

The reader is referred to the corresponding section for Parker Buff, Fort Mohave Variant.

PARKER BUFF, FORT MOHAVE VARIANT

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

=Synonym=: None.

=Variant named for=: Fort Mohave Reservation.