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acterized by an almost hemispherical form, walls of very uniform 
thickness, and “direct rims” (neither incurved or outcurved), tend- 
ing, in most cases, to have square rather than rounded edges (fig. 
52, a). Handles are uncommon. As only small fragments of the 
pitchers have as yet come to light, nothing can be said as to their 
form. The only complete seed jar found, which from the sherds 
seems to be typical, is illustrated in plate 34, c. 
The decorative system of redware with shining paint is difficult 
to describe, nor have we as yet enough material for an analysis. 
The accompanying illustrations (fig. 56) plainly show the differ- 
ences between it and the classes about to be described. Noteworthy 
features are the exceptionally neat brushwork and the lavish use 
of sets of narrow, parallel lines. 
REDWARE WITH DULL PAINT: This has a paste rather coarser than 
that of the last class, containing numerous small bits of water-worn 
quartz and a thick sprinkling of yellowish-white particles (nature 
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Fig. 57.—Redware jugs. 
unknown, ground potsherds ?) which often protrude through the 
shp and give many of the pieces the appearance of having been 
sprinkled with very fine sawdust. The slip is thin, particularly on 
bowl exteriors, where it is generally little more than an unevenly 
applied wash. The exterior bottoms of bowls and jars are almost 
always left unslipped. The general surfaces are worked down 
evenly, but seldom if ever have the perfect texture of class 1. The 
pigment is a thick, dull black, entirely without luster, contrasting 
with its background much more sharply than does the slaty bluish 
paint of class 1. 
By far the most abundant specimens of this ware are small, fat- 
bellied jugs, 3 to 6 inches high, with large orifices and single, ver- 
tical handles (fig. 57). They have little or no neck and uniformly 
outcurved lips. A somewhat larger vessel, similar in shape but 
lacking the handle, was, from the evidence of the sherds, not 
uncommon. 
