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and a maximum diameter of 15 cm., it has a hemispherical underbody, 

 rounded shoulder, flattish upperbody, constricted neck, low very 

 slightly recurved rim, and a plain rounded lip (pi. 36, h). Two 

 flattened loop handles on opposite sides extend from the lip to a point 

 about midway between the neck and shoulder. The surface, dark 

 gray with lighter brownish blotches, is pitted, but from the shoulder 

 up gives evidence of once having been polished. Fresh breaks exhibit 

 a flaky appearance, with thin flat cavities left by dissolving of a 

 freely used crushed shell aplastic. The upperbody carries four pairs 

 of shallow curving trailed lines, placed opposite one another and 

 equally spaced about the vessel. In each unit the lines begin at the 

 shoulder, curve upward nearly to the neck, and end again at the 

 shoulder. So lightly were they applied that the photograph does 

 not bring them out. 



Among the four vessels restored from sherds found in and near the 

 disturbed west wall, the cord-roughened little specimen in plate 36, / 

 is, in some respects, aberrant. In shape it resembles a coconut from 

 which one end has been cut. The restoration, which is probably 

 accurate, gives it a height of 9.6 cm. with exterior diameters of 11.2 

 and 9.2 cm. at equator and rim, respectively. The walls vary in 

 thickness from 4 to 12 mm., as if built up by shaping between the 

 fingers, and the sharpish lip has an irregular undulating surface. 

 Vertical impressions of coarse cords cover the exterior and apparently 

 extended onto the base, but over these impressions there is a polish 

 suggestive of much handling and usage. The paste differs from that 

 in the associated vessels in giving a coarse granular fracture surface. 

 Thin white opaque inclusionb, soluble in dilute hydrochloric acid, 

 have been tentatively identified as crushed shell. The exterior surface 

 is pitted in a fashion similar to that of the usual shell-tempered pots, 

 though to a much lesser extent. 



The bowl shown in plate 36, e was also rebuilt almost wholly from 

 fragments out of the grave wall. Eound-bottomed, with sides con- 

 verging gradually toward the rim, it has a height of 12.5 cm. and a 

 diameter of 14.5-15 cm. The prevailing color is brownish buff, but 

 there is some evidence that this is due to the peeling of a darker 

 slate-gray slip which may have been polished. The paste is gray with 

 a flaky fracture and is thickly mixed with fine shell fragments. Walls 

 average 4 mm. or less in thickness. Two round holes, each 6 mm. in 

 diameter, pierce the wall about 12 mm. below the lip on opposite sides 

 of the bowl. There is a rudely incised zigzag line on one side about 

 midway between base and lip ; traces of a rectilinear pattern of equal 

 crudity occur on two rimsherds not fitted into, but clearly part of, 

 the vessel. 



