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first one on plate 148, a, and clearly reveals the two types of weaves 

 present on its exterior surface. Other sherds having impressions of 

 the closely woven twilled twining are the third specimen on plate 

 148, a, and the last sherd on plate 78, ~b. 



Pointed-Kim Sherds 



This easily identifiable and distinctive type of rim is represented 

 by only 17 specimens in the collection at the Ceramic Repository. 

 They are rather soft, as will be seen by glancing at Chart XIII. 

 The texture is medium fine with but two exceptions, and the surface 

 finish about the rim was produced by first tooling the entire outer 

 body with a cord-wrapped paddle and then roughly smoothing the 

 rim. The body was tooled on the majority of the vessels and was 

 not usually smoothed. The rim shape is either straight or slightly 

 flaring, and the lip shape is either round or narrowed and rounded. 

 About half of the pieces show the effects of smoke blackening on 

 the outer or inner surface. The surface color varies from light tan 

 to dark gray. The paste is gray with the exception of one sherd 

 that is reddish brown. The lip thickness ranges from 0.3 cm to 

 0.9 cm, the rim thickness from 0.4 cm to 1.2 cm, and the shoulder 

 from 0.4 cm to 1.1 cm. The rim is usually a bit thicker than the 

 lip, while the shoulder is thinner than the rim. 



None of the sherds pictured as representing this group at Site 

 No. 11 have handles (pi. 76, £>), but two of the sherds in the Ceramic 

 Repository collection have broken knobs below the raised point which 

 probably were handles of the loop type. The knobs are either 

 rounded or horizontally elongated. The vertically elongated one 

 (Sherd No. 8, pi. 76, &), is atypical, as is the sherd in the lower 

 left-hand corner of the same figure. I do not believe that Sherd 

 No. 9 belongs to the same group as the other sherds pictured, as the 

 shape of the lip, the horizontal lug, and the raised rim are not the 

 same as the other sherds shown. Figure 51 is a reconstruction of 

 a vessel of this type and has two raised points. This was probably 

 not so for all of the vessels represented by the sherds discussed in 

 this group. Many of these jars probably had squared mouths with 

 four raised rim sections, as shown in plate 79, a. A few of the 

 sherds have a thickened upper rim strip that in several cases has 

 not been completely smoothed into the rim wall. 



Bowes 



Bowl-shaped vessels are represented by only 17 sherds in the collec- 

 tion available for study. Of these, 12 could be scratched with the 

 fingernail and 15 had medium fine texture. The surface finish was 



