preferable, the discrepancy is explained, since the name _í mush ton
ne_ is from _i´ mu_, to sit, and _tóm me_, a tube. This indicates,
too, why the basket-bottle was not displaced by the earthen bottle.
While the former continued in use for bringing water from a distance,
the latter was employed for storing it. As the fragile earthen vessels
were much more readily made and less liable to become tainted, they
were exclusively used as receptacles, removing the necessity of the
tedious manufacture of a large number of the basket-bottles. Again, as
the pitcher was thus used exclusively as a receptacle, to be set aside
in household or camp, the name _í´ mush ton ne_ sufficed without the
interpolation _te_--"earthenware"--to distinguish it as of _terra
cotta_, instead of osiery.

[Illustration: FIG. 521.--Water-bottle of corrugated ware, showing
double handle.]

[Illustration: FIG. 522.--Water-bottle of corrugated ware, showing
plain bottom.]



POTTERY INFLUENCED BY LOCAL MINERALS.

Before discussing the origin of other forms, it may be well to
consider briefly some influences, more or less local, which, in
addition to the general effect of gourd-forms in suggesting
basket-types and of the latter in shaping earthenware, had
considerable bearing on the development of ceramic art in the
Southwest, pushing it to higher degrees of perfection and diversity in
some parts than in others.