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ward attached. It is often notched or indented with a stick, bone, or 

 iced, or with the fingers. 



The mcks of vases and pot-shaped vessels have a great variety of 

 handles, knobs, and ornaments. Some of the latter seem to be atro- 

 phied handles. In some cases a low horizontal ridge, from 1 to t or 

 more inches in length is placed near the rim, in place of the continuous 

 collar. In other cases a narrow, crescent-shaped ridge is attached, the 

 points reaching down on the shoulder, the arch lying upon the neck. 

 Still others have one or more handles which connect the rim with the 

 neck or shoulder of the vessel, leaving a round or oblong passage tor a 

 cord or vine. 



These handles were added after the vessel was completed. They are 

 never ornamented. In one case an arched handle, like the handle of a 

 basket, couuects the opposite sides of the rim. This is the only entire 



Fig. 118. 



vessel recovered from the mound. It was associated with the upper 

 layer of skeletons. Diameter 4i inches. Fig. 118. 



The body of these vessels is sometimes quite plain, but is more lie 

 quently covered with cord markings. These, with one or two exec]) 

 tious, seem to be made by a series of fine cords, approximately parallel, 

 lmt without cross-threads of any kind. There is little uniformity of 

 arrangement. In the upper part, and about the base of the neck, the 

 indented lines are generally vertical. On the bottom they are quite 

 irregular, as if the vessel, in making, had been rolled about on a piece of 

 netting or coarse cloth. The cords have been about the size of the ordi- 

 nary cotton cord used by mrchants. One exception is seen in a fragment 

 of a large, rudely-made vase, in which we have the impression of a fabric, 



