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knob. The purpose of all these lugs may well have been for the at- 

 tachment of suspension cords, but their extreme elaboration suggests 

 that the idea of adornment rather than utility had become dominant 

 in the minds of their makers. 



The second most numerous class (e) is a double-ended, vertical 

 lug constricted in the center and attached at this point to the body of 

 the vessel (fig. 26; pi. 24, b). There are 22 of the broken-ofif lugs; 

 of these, 15 have a definite perforation in the lower end of the lug, 

 whereas 7 others lack this hollow or perforation. These are the most 

 elaborately conventionalized of all the lug types ; they occur on the 



Fig. 26. — Vertical, elaborate monochrome lugs, Indian Hill, site i. 



tinest monochrome ware vessels (pi. 24, b) and are obviously closely 

 related to the lugs on the splendid marble vases from the Uloa River 

 valley. One of the hollow-ended lugs is definitely human (fig. 25, b), 

 and another is very similar to this piece but lacks the head, having a 

 hollow tube at each end. One, a very small example, suggests a jaguar, 

 and two are variants of the manatee motif. A large example suggests 

 the tapir (fig. 26, c). There are nine elaborately modeled and incised 

 lugs with punctate decoration (fig. 24, c ; fig. 27, c, e; fig. 25, (7). All 

 of these have a grotesque, humanoid quality of the gargoyle variety. 

 They may be seen in profile on the complete vessels and models 

 (pi. 24, b; pi. 8, fig. i) and in the drawing (fig. 26). Of the seven 

 lugs lacking the perforation at the lower end, one is definitely human 



