Vessel-Lip Decoration as a Possible Guide to Southwestern Group Movements and Contacts (Pamphlet)

Description

Author: Ellis, Bruce T.  (1903-1985)

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Pub Date: 1953

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Stapled binding tight.  No tears, folds.  Previous owner’s name on upper front cover corner.  Lower front cover corner has an approx. 1″ bend.  Sun-fading to front spine edge, rear spine edge and upper edge rear cover.  Slight edge wear.

Notes:  Pamphlet.  Offprint.  Originally published in the Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, Volume 9, Number 4, Winter 1953.  “During the entire known course of Southwestern Indian ceramics, the lips of painted bowls and jars have been finished in but four different ways, or styles…The four styles are: (1) Striping, with either black or red paint; (2) Ticking, or embellishing with a checkered double-linear or other open design, in black and occasionally white paint;  (3) Red-slipping, in a slip distinct from that of the decorative zone, either as a stripe lying directly upon the lip or as an overlap of a band or total covering of red slip on either surface, drawn up to and over the lip; (4) Leaving the lip undecorated.  It may be either covered with body-slip or left ‘in the paste.’  (A seeming fifth style occurs when parts of the surface patterning overlap the lip.  The rare instance of this cannot be considered as deliberate attempts at lip decoration.)”  (Pages 436-37).  VERY RARE.  No other copies available for sale.  From the library of the late anthropologist John Otis Brew.