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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo11amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Symbolic of the rainbow. Upper diamonds are scat>- tering rain clouds; below, the cloud rack with rainbow more or less broken and fringed with light; under the rainbow the open sky. a ma.ss of white cumulus clouds appearing above the horizon which runs out at either end into mysteriotis distance. Lower horizontal line the level groimd. imder it roots benefited by the down- pour; from center of ground-line springs a flower sequel of the rain
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Swampy margin of a lake. In diamonded area white represents water, black land Border of the lake at either side in the form of the ever-recurring terrace or zigzag with its mysterious suggestion of clouds moimtains and hiunan aspiration. At the top the cat-tail rush with long roots growing downward into the deep water trees, spreads out in a maze of elianiiels. Between it and tlic tdwii are the cornfields divided in-e<,nilaily l)y hedges of wild phinis and sunflowers that i'dllow the courses of the irrigation (htrhes. To the north is seen the Black Mesa, an isolated fiat-topped hill perhaps six hundred feet in height that stands in the middle of the valley. The \ertical escarpments of black lava resemble the bastions of a fort. On the summit of this hill the natives of San lldefonso maintained them- selves against the besieging Spanish soldiers during the rebellion of KiSO. Several kinds of pottery are still manufactured at San Ildefon.so. In particular the pueblo is famous for water jars and large storage vessels with conventionalized de- signs in red and black upon a cream-colored base. Red base pottery with designs in black, polished l)lack pottery and rough cooking ware are also made. The processes of pottery manufacture are about the same in all the Rio Grande pueblos l)iit the materials, such as clays and paints, vary from ^•illage to village, as do also the styles of deco- ration. The typical wares of each pueblo are, as a rule, easily recognized. The ves- sels are built up by hand from hollowed out lumps of 194

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