The furniture, owing to some fortunate accident of choice, was not ornate but of plain straight lines, redeemed by painted ollas filled with flowers.
That won't take but a few minutes and when old Fanny Squaw comes along in a week or so to sell ollas I'll send her down to cut and weave yucca for you.
It's there they find the rock they make these ollas of.
The prickly pear cactus and the ollas grew thick and the ground was covered with broken rock that made short work of his already well-worn shoes.
There were shower baths, and latticed piazzas, and large ollas hanging in the shade of them, containing cool water.
He filled the barrels, and when it had settled clear, the ollas were filled, and thus the drinking water was a trifle cooler than the air.
Naked brown babies climbed up and down the ladders and paddled in the shallow river Indian women with scarlet shawls across their shoulders filled their ollas at the river and stood gossiping, the brimming ollas on their heads.
We'll cook a good supply of rabbits and I'll fix up one of those bowl-like ollas with my handkerchief, so we can carry water in it as well as in the two canteens.
In the midst of the Colorado Desert, where, previous to the bringing in of water by the Imperial canal system, neither man nor beast could find means of subsistence, are found many earthen ollas of Indian make and of ancient pattern.
These ollas are not found in groups and collections, but in ones and twos at various intervals in the interior of the desert.
He must admit that he himself has found bones in urns or ollas in the graves of New Mexico and California, but under circumstances that would seem to indicate a deposition long subsequent to death.
Women still carry their ollas and other burdens on their heads and are exceedingly strong and expert in the art, balancing great and awkward weights with admirable dexterity.
And then he told her to roast some real corn & mix both together and grind them all up very fine, and Ee-ee-toy told her to take some ollas of this pinole in her syih-haw to the reservoirs.
The Apache well: I am told the old Arizona Indian wells were not walled up, and the sides were at such a slant that the women could walk down to the water and back with their ollas on their heads.
It is carried in 4 to 6 gallon ollas borne on the head of the woman or shoulder of the man.
A few years ago, during a severe state of feud, Samoki pots increased in value about thirty-fold; it is said that the potters purchased carabao for ten large ollas each.
They differ from the ollas in one respect only--the necks are narrower and higher.
Bottle-shaped vessels and ollas have not, as in the south, formed a prominent feature.
They comprise ollas and handled mugs of an elongated scrotoid or sack shape, the widest part of the body being, as a rule, near the base, while the upper part is elongated into a heavy neck, to which a recurved rim has been added.
Some of the ollas and bottles are masterpieces of the art.
I have already called attention to the fact, that the Saint George tumulus furnished no example of ollas or large-necked vases of the painted variety, vessels of this class being plain or of the coiled ware.
Between bowls and pot-shaped vases or ollas there is but a step--the addition of an upright or recurving band forming a neck.
I used to herd sheep here, and we smashed mortars and ollas to pass away time.
I was on one occasion excavating at San Clemente Island, and had remarked that it was a singular fact that all the fine stone ollas were broken.
These are tended by the women who daily bring water in ollas and pails to irrigate the plants.
The Papago and Pueblo specimens were selected from typical material in the National Museum and at random, save that in the Pueblo ollas choice was made of specimens corresponding approximately in size with those of the Seri.
Only a couple of families [ein paar Familien] still reside in the village [Pueblo Seri], where they make ollas and subsist on the offal of the shambles.
The Hopi woman brings water to the village up a mile or two of heart-breaking trail, carrying it in great ollas set on her head or slung on her back.
Rude steps were cut in the rocky trail leading to the pueblo dwellings above two miles away, from whence came the squaws with big ollas to carry the water.
At noon the snakes were taken from the big jars and washed in other ollas of water.
Squaws are wearily climbing the steep trail with heavy ollas of water on their backs, held there by a shawl knotted around their foreheads.
Here has been erected a cottonwood bower called the "kisi," in the base of which ollas have been placed containing the snakes.
In one corner of the house several large ollas will be found full of water.
Near the water ollas one can generally see a shelf upon which the household utensils are placed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ollas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
