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excellent, and a smaller version of the intricately incised, hollow, 

 ovoid foot (fig. 28, a) is also present; two others are similar to 

 figure 28, h, and two are similar to those on a bowl from Michael 

 Rock (pi. 31, /). Thus, although a few excellent examples occur, 

 the wealth of intricately incised and modeled lugs and feet noted at 

 site I is lacking at site 2. Two fragments of annular bases were noted ; 

 one of these is decorated with short, curved lines ending in dots, the 

 other is well polished but lacks incisions or other decoration. One 

 sherd with a gray-blue inner surface suggests the elaborate, cylindrical 

 type of vessel (pi. 24), and a small model (pi. 31, a) represents a 

 simpler version of this type. The scarcity of this type of sherd, how- 

 ever, agrees with the lack of elaborate vertical lugs already noted. 

 The intricately incised, solid pedestal of a small red ware pot (pi. 

 30, g) is a rather unique specimen. 



Fig. 31. — Outline sketches of characteristic plain monochrome pottery, 

 Indian Hill, site 2. 



To judge from our own small excavations and from the mass of 

 sherds exposed by earlier digging, plain red monochrome pots with 

 swollen bodies, contracted necks, and flaring lips (pi. 30. //-/; fig. 31) 

 are strikingly predominant among the complete and broken ceramics 

 at site 2. The more elaborate types just described do occur, but they 

 represent a very small proportion of the deposit as compared to this 

 large to medium type wath swollen body, contracted neck, and low 

 flaring lips. Many of these are extremely thick, the sherd figured 

 (pi. 30, k) being 1.5 cm through at the neck, and the thicker the 

 vessel, the more coarse is the ground-up coral tempering. Other sherds 

 of this type noted at site 2 were 2.5 cm in thickness. Another type 

 (pi. 30, i), with a low, much-everted rim, is thinner (.5 cm thick at 

 the neck) and comes from a vessel with an estimated height and 

 mouth diameter of about 25 cm. Identical rim sherds were noted at 

 cave I, Helena Island, and at Black Rock Basin on Utila Island, where 

 they served as urns for partial burials. Although the " urn " type 



