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RIM SCALE 
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VESSEL SCALE 
Ficure 20.—Rim profiles and reconstructed vessel shapes of Alaka Phase pottery types. 
Top: Sand Creek Plain. Bottom: Wanaina Plain. 
15-25 percent of the mixture. The species of shell cannot be identified 
because of leaching and the fineness of the particles except that it is not 
mussel. Some particles are as large as 1 cm. 
Texture: Platy; leached and eroded sherds full of holes; not friable, al- 
though soft. 
Color: Medium- to dark-gray core with a thin area of lighter gray or gray 
tan adjacent to the surfaces. 
Firing: Incomplete oxidizing, poorly controlled. 
SURFACE: 
Color: Uneroded sherds are usually light tan to gray tan on exterior and 
interior. 
