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sherds that have the fine texture are also distinct because of their 

 wider warp and coarse gritty surface. The hardness of the sherds 

 varies from 2-2.5 to 4. Over 60 percent of the sherds have a hardness 

 of 2.5, while 35 percent are above that figure. As a group they are 

 not quite as hard as Type II but harder than Type I. The interior 

 surfaces show smoke discoloration on a little more than half of the 

 sherds, while the exterior is blackened on only one-fourth of the 

 pieces. The surface colors range from black through neutral grays to 

 grayish tans and a reddish brown. This latter color occurs on the 

 first four sherds. 



While the textile impression on all of these sherds is of the same 

 general type, some of them, notably the first eight in Chart III 7 

 typical examples of which are shown in plate 13, a, row 2, No. l y 

 and row 4, No. 3, have a wider warp than is present in the other 

 pieces. The majority, however, have the appearance of those shown 

 in plate 13, a, row 2, No. 5, and row 4, No. 2. The impressions on 

 most of the sherds in the Ceramic Eepository have been somewhat 

 smoothed so that it has been difficult to get a clear positive of the 

 fabric which made the impressions. The type of basketry that is 

 represented on these sherds seems to be plain plaited weaving, with 

 a close weft. In most of the sherds the warp threads are completely 

 hidden and in none of them can the exact character of the warp be 

 determined. The warp varies from 0.8 cm to 1 cm in width, with 

 five warp strands being 4 cm in width in the best example. On the 

 same sherd five weft threads were 2 cm in width. The finer impres- 

 sions have a measurement of 2.1 cm for five warp threads and but 

 0.7 cm for five weft threads. 



The sherds range in thickness from 0.5 cm to 1.3 cm, with the 

 majority of the sherds being between 0.6 and 0.9 cm. 



The sherds making up the last group, Chart IV, were in the main 

 those that did not rather obviously fall within the first three. They 

 consist of three sherds with a striated surface as though they had 

 been brushed (see the lower right-hand corner of pi. 13, a) and the 

 rest have fairly smooth surfaces. In a number of cases it was pos- 

 sible to identify the type of surface finish before the sherd had be- 

 come smoothed. Hardness again ranges from 2-2.5 to 4, with a 

 little over 50 percent of the sherds having a hardness of 2.5 and 

 about 30 percent having a hardness of 2-2.5. Only 4 out of the 

 39 sherds had other than limestone temper. The texture was pre- 

 dominantly medium with the next largest group being medium 

 coarse. In most of the sherds the amount of temper and clay is about 

 equal. Twenty-three of the sherds have smoke-blackened interiors 

 and 10 have the same discoloration on the exterior. The exterior 

 surface coloration on this group corresponds to that noted for the 

 first three groups. 



