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hardness of 2, and only one is hole tempered. Forty-seven percent 

 are 2.5, and 44 percent can be scratched by the fingernail. This is 

 the hardest group of rim sherds for any of the valley sites. The 

 texture is almost entirely medium fine, as only two of the sherds are 



CHART 23 



CHART 26 



LEFT SURFACE IS 

 INNER SURFACE 



Figure 77. — Rim-sherd sections, Charts Nos. 23-26. The slope of the rims in 

 Chart 24 should be at about a 30° angle. 



fine and but one is medium. The rim area is almost entirely 

 smoothed on all but four of the sherds, while the body or shoulder 

 area, when present, sometimes bears the impressions of a cord- 

 wrapped paddle. The rims are predominantly straight and of me- 

 dium height. A few sherds have a high rim. Sherd No. 4 is an 



