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faced inward; it has deeply punched eyes, an aquiline nose with 

 nostrils indicated, and an open slit mouth stained red inside. From 

 midden 1 came part of a bowl with the stump of a solid cylindrical 

 handle set about 2.5 cm. below the lip. 



A different bowl shape is shown by a specimen (pi. 22, c) taken 

 from pit 5 A and since restored. The bottom is slightly convex, and 

 the bulging sides converge toward the top. Averaging less than 5 mm. 

 in wall thickness, the piece is 12.3 cm. tall and slightly over 15 cm. 

 in diameter. The mottled dark gray to buff exterior, now much 

 pitted, still shows traces of a well-polished surface. There is no 

 decoration. 



Another form of jar is suggested by eight incised rim sherds (pi. 

 24, /, g, i) . They are small, but the curve of the lip and probable plane 

 of the orifice indicate that the vessel walls were drawn in toward the 

 mouth. All are from thin-walled containers, probably of no great 

 size, which lacked a recurved rim. Incised decoration runs to the 

 broken edges ; it consists of two to four or more horizontal lines par- 

 alleling the lip or else of a variant of the curved pair of lines bordering 

 an area of parallel diagonals of unequal length. There is no direct 

 clue to the shape of body or type of base, but it appears probable that 

 the walls below the lip sloped out at a more acute angle than in the 

 bowl described above from pit 5A. At the risk of generalizing from 

 inadequate data, I venture the suggestion of a form that may have 

 resembled the kiva-jar of the Southwest (Kidder, 1924, p. 62 and 

 fig. 9/). 



No fragments of the high-necked water-bottle type were found. 

 There are, however, four rimsherds from two or three different vessels 

 that evidently had a vertical neck 3 or 4 cm. high below which the 

 body swelled outward to unknown size and shape. These were 

 probably mostly of small size. 



As regards surface finish and treatment, it may be noted that the 

 sherds have generally been smoothed but seldom polished. An occa- 

 sional piece, usually dark gray or nearly black in color, will exhibit 

 a slight shininess. A few have thin sliplike outer layers, which tend 

 to scale off. 



Miniature pots were modeled out of clay tempered sparingly with 

 shell or not at all. One specimen represented by about a third of the 

 original vessel resembles the larger ones first described in having a 

 shoulder and a low vertical rim. It is ca. 45 mm. high, with a diameter 

 of 55-60 mm. There is also a fragment of what was probably a ladle, 

 less than half of which is present. This was about 35-40 mm. deep, 

 ca. 80-90 mm. wide, elliptical in shape, and of unknown length. At 

 the end is a suggestion of a handle, comparatively thin in cross section. 

 Surfaces are rough and uneven. The base has a flattened area, which 



