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type (c). The remainder represent human or simian forms (pi. 23, 

 e, f), animal (fig. 23, b), or unusual or intermediate forms (pi. 23, c). 

 One lug (pi. 23, e), which might be either human, simian, or a con- 

 ventional jaguar, is almost identical with a lug figured by Gordon 

 ( 1898, pi. I, fig. 12) from the Uloa river. 



Of the three main lug types, those with the nose-tilted face (a) are 

 best preserved, all retaining both slip and design. Type (b) lugs are 

 more eroded than (a), and type (c) lugs are without either slip or 

 design except in two cases. Presuming that weathering conditions 

 have been equal for all, as would seem to have been the case at least 



Fig. 20. — Polychrome I rim sherds (inner surface), Indian Hill, site i. (White, 

 orange-red; black, black; hatching, purplish red; cross hatching, darker red.) 



since their deposition in the offertory, this may indicate the older and 

 the later types in vogue. Such a sequence is likewise suggested by the 

 fact that type (a) seems to have developed from type (b) through 

 the " applique rider " face being dropped from the top to the tip of 

 the lug, with the encircling arms thus forming a ridge around the 

 face, thereby giving type (a) lugs the appearance of a face projecting 

 from a fish or reptile mouth. Three rather aberrant lugs (pi. 23, a, c) 

 further this suggestion of a developmental transition between types 

 (a) and (b). It should also be noted that both lug types (b) and (c) 

 occur in the monochrome ware as well as in the thin, polychrome 

 (pis. 23, a, b; fig. 24, d, f; pi. 27, fig. i, a). In many cases it is 



