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Ficure 90.—Rim profiles and reconstructed vessel shapes of Kassikaityu Punctate, Taruma 
Phase (Appendix, table 33). 
KASSIKAITYU PUNCTATE 
PASTE AND SURFACE: Predominantly on Yoch6 Plain paste, but occasionally on 
Kalunye Plain or Mawik4 Plain; see those type descriptions for details. 
ForM: 
Rim: Direct or slightly everted, with rounded or flattened lip. 
Body wail thickness: 5-15 mm. 
Base: The decoration is confined to the upper wall, so that in the absence 
of restorable vessels the associated bases cannot be identified. Since the 
majority of the decoration is on Yoch6 Plain, the bases are probably the 
common ones of that type. 
Major vessel forms reconstructed from sherds: 
1. Large, thick-walled jars, with rounded body, short collarlike neck, 
direct rim and rounded or flattened lip. Mouth diameter 22-38 cm. 
(fig. 90-1). 
2. Rounded jars with upper walls insloping to slightly everted rim 
with rounded lip. Rim diameter 14-22 em. (fig. 90-2). 
DECORATION (pl. 43) : 
Technique: The sherds included in this type have in common the fact that 
the decoration is produced by punching, poking or jabbing the surface 
repeatedly, producing a series of marks. However, the technique of their 
production is highiy variable. Tools include the fingertip, fingernail, a 
pointed, square or triangular-ended stick and a split hollow cane, the 
latter giving a semicircular imprint. These were manipulated in a 
variety of ways. Fingertip marks may be depressions made by pressing 
with the finger approximately perpendicular to the vessel surface, or by 
pressing at an angle so that the clay is displaced into a low ridge beside 
the depression. The depth of such depressions is approximately 2 mm., 
and the height of the intervening ridges, when present, about the same. 
In rare instances, adjacent punctations have been made from opposite 
angles, so that the intervening ridge is alternately prominent and absent. 
Fingernail marks are thin, curved lines made by applying the nail per- 
pendicularly to the surface. They occasionally occur simultaneously with 
fingertip punctates. Stick punctates are of two sorts: jabs 14 mm. deep 
