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fastened at the lower end by insertion into a hole, the end of the 

 handle being flattened against the inside surface of the jar. Tliis 

 fastening was generally so well done that the method can be seen only 

 in fractured sherds or where the handle pulled out of the hole 

 (pi. 24, h). The loop formed by the handle is rarely large enough 

 for one's finger, and was probably intended to receive a thong or cord. 

 Thickened tabs appear to be from jars of this type (pi. 24, e). 



As already indicated, the lip was never ornamented, nor was the 

 rim. Decoration was applied to the flattened upperbody between 

 shoulder and rim. Where rimsherds are listed under the "incised" 

 column in table 7, these are actually fragments of the upperbody to 

 which sections of rim remain attached. All ornamentation was 

 incised and made use of simple linear designs. The lower margin 

 of the pattern consisted of a single or double line, undulating about 

 the zone of greatest diameter, above which the upperbody was covered 

 with groups of parallel lines ending at the neck. Rarely the lines at 

 the lower margin were filled in to give a ladderlike effect. Occa- 

 sionally the upperbody bears a series of three or four parallel lines 

 either undulating continuously about the vessel, or else forming a 

 series of adjoining inverted and concentric V- or U-shaped units. All 

 these motifs, which recur with monotonous regularity on sherd after 

 sherd, are shown in plate 23. 



Four rimsherds from house 1 have been assembled and incorporated 

 in a small restored pot conforming in most particulars to the above 

 vessel shape (pi. 22, h). It is 8.3 cm. deep by 12.8 cm. in diameter. 

 Both handles are intact, and a lightly incised zigzag line occurs 

 between shoulder and neck. The surface appears to have been much 

 darker and highly polished at one time. 



Less common than loop-handled pots were small vertical walled 

 bowls, presumably with flattened base. A restored specimen (pi. 

 22, a) from house 1 is 15 cm. across by 7.6^ cm. deep. The exterior 

 is uneven, and the inside has horizontal to oblique striations and 

 smoothing marks. There are 23 other rimsherds that may be ascribed 

 to several vessels of similar form and probably of about the same size. 

 Most of these also show the marks of a smoothing tool, and none 

 bears the slightest evidence of ornamentation. Several small modeled 

 bird or animal effigy heads, to which portions of vertical rimsherds 

 are still attached (pi. 24, «, <?, d), may have been perched on bowls 

 of this type, probably with rounded horizontal rim tabs to represent 

 the tail on the opposite side. I should be inclined, however, to 

 attribute these added rim features to larger deeper bowls such as the 

 one (cf. pi. 32, a) taken by us from the cemetery north of the village. 

 Human effigy heads were sometimes set on bowl rims. The one shown 

 in plate 24, &, found by Shippee on the terrace northwest of midden 1, 



