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BULLETIN 183, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSiEUM 



Several vessel shapes may be inferred from our sherd series. Char- 

 acteristic were medium to large jars with hemispherical underbody, 

 rounding to angular shoulder, flattish (occasionally rounding) upper- 

 body, constricted neck, and low vertical or flaring rim with rounded 

 undecorated lip (fig. 10, A, i). The largest vessel indicated in our 



Figure 10. — Rim profiles and vessel shapes from Steed-Kisker village site. 



faces, a-g, to left. 



Interior sur- 



series had by projection of various arcs a neck diameter of ca. 25 cm., 

 a maximum diameter at the shoulder of ca. 40-45 cm., and a height 

 estimated at ca. 30 cm. More common were similarly shaped jars 

 15-20 cm. high and 25-30 cm. in diameter. Vessel walls averaged 

 3-6 mm. thick; the maximum thickness noted in the series, on the 

 large jar alluded to above, is 10-11 mm. Loop handles, circular or 

 flattened elliptical in cross section, are fairly common but probably 

 did not occur on all pots ; usually two were set on opposite sides of 

 the mouth, extending from lip to upper body. Commonly they were 



