1300° Fahrenheit, and they apparently had no means of securing it.[83] All of their ware can be scratched with a knife, which is a test of soft ware, and while some of it seems to have lustre, it is the lustre of polish, not of glaze. Some ware, however, recently found in the Central-American region appears to have a true glaze. Some tribes make a variety of kinds of ware, while others confine themselves to some special kind, and still others, as mentioned in the case of Taos, buy all they use and make none. The Pueblos to-day are extensive potters, especially the Zuñis and the Mokis, and produce large quantities of varied ware, which, while similar in many respects to that of the ancients of the region, is not so fine nor so well formed. At the Chaco ruins Pepper found a number of tube-shaped vases, about four inches diameter and a foot high, with four small perforated handles. In the course of time enormous quantities must have been made in the South-west, for the ground is everywhere strewn with fragments of it. This would indicate either a dense population or a very long occupation by a comparatively sparse one, and thus far the evidence is in favour of the latter hypothesis. In such a dry climate as exists in the South-west, even soft pottery is almost indestructible when not exposed to river or ice action. In such cases it would soon be destroyed. Though the Colorado River runs through the length of the ancient Pueblo country, and receives many branches whose valleys, like its own, reveal myriads of fragments, I never found a specimen in the river gravels. If this is the case, how could we expect to find remains of pottery in glacial drift? Another kind of pottery has lately been found by Lumholtz at Teuchitlan, State of Jalisco, Mexico. It is a sort of cloisonné, apparently made by firing the plain ware and then applying a thick slip which, when dry, was engraved with a pattern down to the baked surface. The parts cut away were then smoothly filled in with a white paste and with paste of other colours, producing some excellent effects. Another firing then fixed the superimposed paste. [Illustration: WARE FROM MOKI REGION, ARIZONA.] [Illustration: WARE FROM MOKI REGION, ARIZONA.] There are numerous specimens in the American Museum. [Illustration: CUP FROM ARIZONA.] [Illustration: VASE FROM ARKANSAS, SHOWING LINES MADE WITH A SHARP POINT BEFORE FIRING.]