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with stab-and-drag lines ; the average height is between 35 and 40 mm. 

 Thickness is 4 to 8 mm., averaging between 5 and 6 mm. The thickness 

 of the lip and the mid-rim is nearly the same, with the neck about 1 mm. 

 thicker. Rim forms include A-B, E-F, and H (fig. 13). 

 Neck: Constricted on outflaring rims. 



Shoulder: Most of the shoulders are about 45 degrees from the vertical, al- 

 though some appear to have been more nearly horizontal. 

 Body: Several partly restorable rims indicate vessels with a globular body 



and wide, circular mouths. 

 Size: Three large rims have mouths of 118, 141, and 180 mm. diameter. A 

 few sherds suggest that mouths may have attained widths of about 

 200 mm. 

 Appendages: The 18 handles include 14 loop handles and 4 strap handles; 

 in each instance they appear to have been paired on the rim. They 

 were riveted to the mid-rim or upper shoulder and welded to the lip. 

 Loop handles are invariably decorated with horizontal lines, in effect a 

 continuation of the rim design (pi. 10, j) but strap handles are often 

 decorated with herringbones or other incised designs (pi. 10, g). Thirty- 

 seven strap handles, detached from the rims, are arbitrarily assigned 

 to this group since handles are lacking on most of the remaining groups ; 

 many of them are horizontally incised. There is much variation in the 

 size and form of the strap handles, with widths varying from 12 to 65 mm. 

 Three rim projections are decorated by a continuation of the lip decora- 

 tions ; they extend vertically from the lip to a height of 5 mm. Twenty- 

 four lugs, extending out at right angles from the rim (pi. 10, h) are 

 decorated on the upper surface by the same impressions occurring on 

 the lip, but here the impressions are larger and deeper. One lug is 

 centrally incised (pi. 10, e). 

 Comments : This pottery very closely approximates the type Grey Cloud Hori- 

 zontal-Incised from the Spain site (Smith and Grange, 1958, pp. 102-103). 

 It differs from this type in having a larger number of horizontally incised 

 lines, in lacking the shoulder patterns common to Grey Cloud vessels, and 

 in the presence of appendages. Grey Cloud Horizontal-Incised grades into 

 lona Horizontal-Incised at Spain, the latter type having protruded T- or L- 

 shaped lips, lacking at Demery. The Demery sample is similar to most of 

 the pottery designated by Cooper (1949, pp. 303-306) as Category B. This 

 rim category is also related to the type Wheeler Horizontal-Incised from the 

 Scalp Creek and La Roche sites (Hurt, 1952, p. 76) ; to certain of the hori- 

 zontally incised noncollared rims at Arzberger (Spaulding, 1956, pp. 153-157) ; 

 and to the type Evans Incised, from sites of the Redbird Focus in north central 

 Nebraska (Wood, 1956). 

 3. Flabinq Rims, Obliquely Incised (pi. 13, &, g). 

 Sample : 15 vessels. 



Sueface finish : The finish is not discernable on most sherds due to horizontal 

 smoothing on the rim, and to the fact that most rims are broken from the 

 body at the neck. On one partly restorable vessel (fig. 15, c) the entire body 

 below the neck is cord-roughened. Above the angular shoulder the cord 

 impressions are vertical, but below the shoulder they are random. The cord 

 used was less than a millimeter in diameter ; it was made from two twisted 

 fibers, but smoothing has obscured the direction of the twist. 

 Decoration : 



Lip: Oblique tool indentations occur on 11 rims; on 1 rim the lip is 

 punctated, and the other 2 are plain. 



