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The sand had prevented contact with the basket which would have caused the clay vessel to crack as the latter was very thin. This process exists in full force to-day with the Oraibes in the modeling of convex-bottomed vessels, and the Zuñis thus make their large bowls and huge drum-jars.
Probably, at no one point in the Southwest was ceramic decoration carried to a higher degree of development than at A´ wat u i, yet the Oraibes, by descent the modern representatives of the A´ wat u i ans are the poorest potters and painters among the Mokis. Near their pueblo the clay and other mineral deposits mentioned as abundant at A´ wat u i are meager and inaccessible.
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