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The clay objects illustrated in plate 81, a, are also unusual not only 

 for this site but for all of the valley sites. The two modeled human 

 faces and the animal-and-bird effigy heads, probably belonging to 

 bowl-shaped vessels, are fairly common. The three in the collection at 

 hand were taken from jars. One of the large body sherds of a jar has 

 been sawed along its 10-cm length. It was certainly done before the 

 sherd was discarded. Two of the sherds are reported as having painted 

 surfaces, but none of the sherds in the material received for study 

 were so treated. 



Site No. 10.— Jar Rims, Type B 



The largest series of sherds at this site is described on Chart XX. 

 See the lower row of plate 149, a, &, and the first three sherds in plate 

 148, ~b. As a group their nearest relations are to be found at Site 

 No. 11, type B. Of the 74 sherds belonging to this ware, 47 percent 

 have a hardness of 2 ; 45 percent can be scratched by the fingernail ; 

 and the remaining sherds have a hardness of 2.5. All but four of the 

 sherds have medium fine texture. Of these four atypical ones, one is 

 fine in texture and the other three are medium. 



The surface finish on the majority of the sherds was smoothed; in 

 fact, two-thirds of the sherds can be so described. Only three of the 

 rim sherds in this group bore unsmoothed cord-wrapped paddle 

 impressions. Twenty-eight percent of the sherds had been tooled with 

 the cord- wrapped paddle but the markings had been partially oblit- 

 erated before firing. The body sherds, however, are predominantly 

 marked with the cord tooling and are quite similar to the body sherds 

 of Site No. 11. The rims are straight in 72 percent of the sherds; 

 slightly flaring in 24 percent ; while only one sherd had a flaring rim. 

 There is an added outer rim strip on 43 percent of the sherds and the 

 height of this rim strip is given on the chart describing this group of 

 sherds. 



The most common lip shape is rounded, 55 percent of the lips 

 having this form. The lip was narrowed and rounded in 24 percent 

 of the cases and the remainder were flattened and rounded. A little 

 over a third of the sherds showed traces of smoke discoloration. The 

 colors of the surface are gray, grayish tan, and a reddish to choco- 

 late brown, with the latter two colors being in the minority. The 

 lip thickness ranges from 0.2 cm to 1.1 cm, with 82 percent of the 

 sherds being between 0.4 cm and 0.8 cm. The rim thickness ranges 

 from 0.6 cm to 1.5 cm, but 72 percent of the sherds are between 0.7 cm 

 and 1 cm. There are very few angled shoulders in this group and 

 only 20 percent of the sherds are hole tempered. 



Estimated lip diameters for Sherd No. 2, 15 inches; No. 3, 11 

 inches; No. 4, 12 inches; No. 5, 12.5 inches; No. 16, 10 inches; No. 18, 

 11 inches ; No. 34, 5 inches ; and No. 52, 11 inches. 



