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PaaS eres (GSES I es 
OF lee) (3 'CM Oo 4 8 12 CM 
RIM & BASE VESSEL SCALE 
SCALE 
Ficure 105.—Rim and base profiles and reconstructed vessel shapes of Erefoimo Plain, 
Wai Wai Phase. 
2. Jar with flat, pedestallike base (Form B), walls upsloping to high, 
rounded shoulder, then curving inward to rim with rounded lip. 
This form, used for drinking, is rare and not represented in the 
Sherd collections. One specimen collected ethnographically has 
the following dimensions: mouth diameter 19 cm., height 18 cm., 
maximum body diameter 23.5 cm., base diameter 10 em. (pl. 49, b). 
TEMPORAL DIFFERENCES WITHIN THE TYPE: The time span represented archeo- 
logically and ethnographically in this Wai Wai sample amounts to only about 
10 years, during which time no change in Erefoimo Plain can be detected. 
CHRONOLOGICAL POSITION OF THE TYPE: Dominant at all Wai Wai sites. 
