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handles are round, hollow bars, the ends of which are often supplied 
with a loop of clay as if for suspension. Seed jars are full-bodied 
vessels with flat tops, small orifices, and no necks at all. Colanders 
or sieves are shaped like seed jars, but have in their bottoms many 
small round perforations one-sixteenth inch in diameter. 
Bowls are much less common than the little handled jugs and the 
jars, their place having seemingly been suppled by black-and-white 
or possibly by polychrome bowls. They are practically hemispheri- 
cal, have direct rims and rounded lips (fig. 52, 6), and are not, so 
far as we know, ever provided with handles. 
The decoration of this class of redware is remarkably uniform. 
Hatching, particularly in the form of the hatched ribbon, is almost 
exclusively used. On bowls, and especially on the little handled 
jugs, there recurs again and again the same ornament, a current 
design with recurved toothed projections. Its most common form 
is shown in figure 58, c; modificationsinaand 6. While other hatched 
decorations are found, as well as a few in solid black, nine out of 
every ten small-mouthed vessels, and fully half of all the bowls, 
carry some form of this type design. ; 
PotycHroME WARE: While the paste does not differ noticeably 
from that of the preceding group, the surfaces ‘are so treated as to 
give an entirely different effect. The yellow paste is used as a 
background upon which decorations are applied in red, black, and 
white. Technically the ware is identical with that just described, 
even to the fine mottling due to protruding of bits of light-colored 
tempering material. The red pigment is of a bright rich color, but 
is not thick or particularly tenacious, and rubs away rather easily. 
The black is dull and apparently of the same nature as that of the 
last group; like the red, it does not seem to have bitten well into the 
clay. The white paint is a chalky substance much less permanent 
than the red and the black; only in very heavily fired specimens 
does it amalgamate well with the body of the ware; sherds that 
have been much exposed to the weather are usually found to have 
lost all but faint traces of it. 
Bowls are by far the commonest vessels of polychrome ware. 
They range in size from 2 or 3 inches to 15 inches in diameter, 
larger specimens being rare. The average piece is about 10 inches 
in diameter by 5 inches deep, thus approximating the hemispherical 
form. While the rim is occasionally direct and rounded, most ex- 
amples tend to curve or at least to bevel outward (see fig. 52; nos. 
e and f are the commonest). On the exterior, half an inch to an 
inch below the rim, there is usually a single horizontal handle, made 
of a flat strip of clay and about large enough to admit the tip, but 
not the first joint, of the thumb. In very small bowls this handle is 
sometimes set vertically, thus giving them the appearance of cups; 
