Note 18 — PARAPHERNALIA

Stevenson, in 1879, observed at Zuñi that “the bottoms of old water jars and bowls form stands for the articles while being worked by the potter. The bowls are filled with sand when objects of a globular form are to be made” (1883, p. 329). At Pojuaque (a Tewa pueblo near San Ildefonso, now nearly extinct) he collected two “pottery moulds for bottoms of vessels” (loc. cit. p. 439). Mrs. Stevenson also noticed these olla bottoms at Zuñi (1904, p. 374).