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including all Polychrome I types, this ware made up a very small 

 percentage of the total pottery deposit in the offertory. 



As at the Dixon site, the Polychrome I ware is very hard with a 

 fine paste. It varies from 5 to 9 mm in thickness, averaging around 

 7 mm. It has been thoroughly and evenly fired and highly polished 

 prior to applying the slip and painted decoration. Tempering, often 

 invisible to the naked eye, is of fine white grit. Sherds are mostly of 

 small size, resulting from the breakage of small to medium-sized 

 vessels. The majority have an orange slip ranging from dark orange 

 to light buff, the latter color being rare. Most of these sherds bear 

 portions of painted designs in black and purplish red. Six sherds 

 have a cream-white slip with black and red designs. A considerable 

 number have only traces of slip and painted design, and a few, in- 

 dubitably of this type, are so eroded that both slip and design have 

 entirely disappeared. 



Since no complete or restorable vessels of this ware were recovered, 

 shapes and designs must be reconstructed from fragments. There are 

 6'j rim sherds ; only one of these retains part of a lug, and none has 

 handles. Separate lugs are common. They were placed below the rim 

 and have broken off, usually where they joined the body of the vessel. 

 Rim cross-sections are remarkably uniform and are either slightly 

 swollen or of the same thickness as the body of the vessel. Three rim 

 types can be distinguished: (a) with mouth slightly contracting 

 (fig. 22, /), (b) intermediate (fig. 22, g), and (c) with mouth strongly 

 contracting (fig. 22, d). Practically all rim sherds have an outside 

 design on the neck, usually of purplish red and black (pis. 21, 22). 

 Owing to differential weathering, this design is more or less eroded. 

 Sixteen of the rims have designs on the inside as well as on the out- 

 side (fig. 20). These differ in no essentials from outer neck designs. 

 They will be discussed shortly in relation to polychrome design as a 

 whole. 



The more numerous body sherds appear to be from small rounded 

 pots or semicylindrical vases. Apparently the larger portion of the 

 body surface was covered with painted design. To judge from frag- 

 ments, and from the complete vessel at the Dixon site, lugs were 

 usually attached close to the angle between body and neck. Both lugs 

 and feet apparently were modeled on the body at the same time that the 

 pot itself was shaped. Both are hollow and contain pottery balls or 

 gravel, demonstrating their use as rattles. The majority of the lugs 

 are modeled and fall into three main types: (a) nose-tilted (fig. 22, 

 a), (b) applique rider (fig. 22, h), and (c) iguana head (fig. 22, c). 

 Of the 28 painted lugs, 7 are of type (a), 11 of type (b), and 5 of 



