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of the vessel wall in most of the restored vessels and large sherds. 

 For example, the thiclmess of the base was the same as that over most 

 of the body on the largest restored vessel (pi. 14, 6) ; the neck and rim 

 were only slightly thicker than the base. The 1736 smoothed sherds 

 share all of the characteristics of the simple-stamped sherds except 

 that they show some striations and a tendency to reflect highlights, 

 although typically they have a dull surface. One chech-stam'ped 

 sherd (pi. 9, h) was recovered from the back dirt in excavation 8. 



The 896 decorated sherds which carry incised or trailed lines are 

 from the vessel shoulder. Except for a single curvilinear element 

 (fig. 16, g) all patterns are rectilinear. Several patterns and pattern 

 elements are recorded (figs. 14r-16). Decoration was applied to the 

 vessel shoulder prepared by some horizontal smoothing, and on most 

 vessels the vertical simple stamps are only partly obliterated. On 

 the thinner shoulders, with a thickness of 2 mm. or less, the exterior 

 designs resulted in raised impressions on the interior. 



The 239 red-fvlmed sherds are generally simple-stamped or smoothed, 

 although a few of them are decorated. In all instances the film occurs 

 on the interior of the vessel. 



The 61 cord-roughened sherds are from vessels which were malleated 

 with a paddle wrapped with a fine vegetal cord with an S twist. The 

 cord used was somewhat less than a millimeter in thiclmess (pi. 13, 

 j-h). 



Two large sherds are from miniature vessels. One of them, from 

 House 4, is evenly smoothed and rounded, and is from a vessel about 

 55 mm. in diameter ; wall thickness is 5 mm. The other sherd, from 

 the surface, is from a vessel about 65 mm. in diameter, with a base 

 10 mm. thick and a shoulder 7 mm. thick. The exterior is irregularly 

 smoothed; the interior is likewise rough. Neither vessel was 

 decorated. 



DESCRIPTIVE CATEGORIES AND TYPES 



1. Talking Crow SxRAiGnx Rim (pi. 9, e-g, i-k, and pi. 14, a). 

 Sample : 483 vessels, one of them restored. 



Surface finish : The rims and shoulders are vertically simple-stamped and im- 

 perfectly smoothed, although a few shoulders, particularly near the neck, are 

 wholly smoothed. Four rims are vertically brushed on the outer surface. 

 Decoration : 



Lip: The majority of lips are modified by tool impressions : 2&7 are obliquely 

 impressed ; 93 are transversely impressed ; 66 are punctated ; 2 are cross- 

 hatched; and 25 are plain. Tool impressions occur on the interiors of 

 79 rims (pi. 9, H) ; 57 are obliquely impressed and 22 are transversely 

 impressed. 

 Rim: The rim exterior is plain. 



Shoulder: This area is decorated with incised or trailed lines on 5 vessels. 

 On 4 of them, decoration occurs on rims with oblique tool impressions 

 on the rim interior. There are at least 2 occurrences of opposed diagonals 



