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impossible to be certain to which ware the badly weathered lugs 

 actually belong (fig. 24, /). Type (a) lugs, however, seem to be 

 definitely limited to the thin, polychrome ware (Polychrome I). 



To judge from the present collection, handles were exceedingly 

 rare in this thin, polychrome ware. One vertical handle with charac- 

 teristic painted decoration was recovered at this site (pi. 22. d). Basal 

 portions and foot fragments of this ware are rather uniform, a round- 

 bottomed vessel with three conical feet predominating (pi. 22, e, f; 

 pi. i). Bottoms are either flattened between the tripod feet or marked 

 by a flattened curve that expands rapidly above the feet. 



Fig. 22. — Polychrome I rim, lug and foot types, Indian Hill, site i. (White, 

 orange red; black, black; hatching, purphsh red.) 



In the present collection all basal fragments come from vessels 

 with three coniform feet. Some 25 sherds with attached feet were 

 recovered. They fall into three main types: (a) humped (fig. 22, g) , 

 (b) conical (fig. 22, h), and (c) spurred (fig. 22, i). One example, 

 already described as a lug (pi. 23, /), has a worn surface on the back 

 of the figure's head and may have served as a foot. From the complete 

 vessel obtained at the Dixon site (pi. i) it can be seen that the type 

 (a) lug and the type (a) foot are associated on the same vase. Owing 

 to excessive breakage prior to deposition, the correlation between 

 other lug and foot ty|>es is uncertain. In general, the lugs and feet 

 are among the most numerous and best-preserved thin, polychrome 

 sherds from this site. 

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