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Site No. 10, handles of this type are practically nonexistent. At 

 Sites Nos. 11 and 19, however, they are a very important part of the 

 ceramic picture. The strap handles are placed on the common jar 

 shape, which differs at the lavo sites, as has been explained before. 

 Some of the handles were attached below the lip at Site No. 11, 

 while all of the handles at Site No. 19 were attached to the lip. 



Loop and Strap Handles 



Traits 



Site No. 11 



Site 

 No. 10 



Site No. 19 



Site No. 5 



Site No. 9 



Site No. 17 



Temper: 



Hole 



Rare 



Abundant . . 



0) 



Rare 



Abundant . . 



do 



Abundant . . 

 Medium 



Abundant . . 

 do _. 



( 3 ) 



Shell 





Texture: 



Medium fine 



.... do 





Abundant . . 



do 





Medium.. 



Rare 





Hardness: 



2 



Medium to 

 rare. 







Abundant . . 



Medium to 



rare. 

 Rare 



Abundant . . 



do 



Rare 





2-2.5 





Abundant . . 

 Medium 



Raie -- 





2.5 '.- 



Medium to 

 rare. 



Medium 







Surface finish: 



Cord-wrapped paddle_ 





Cord-wrapped paddle 



...do 













and smoothed. 

 Smoothed 



...do 





Abundant - . 





Abundant . . 

 do 





Loop handles: 



Attached to lip 



Abundant . . 







Medium 





Project above lip 



Rare 







Abundant. . 

 do 



do 



do - 



do 



Rare 



do 



Common 



do 





Round 









Medium. 



Oval 



Medium to 



rare. 

 Rare... 







do 



Do. 



Bifurcated at lip 







Rare 



do 



Medium 





Decorated 



Large broad knob 



do _. 









Bifurcated above lip.. 











Button knob above 











do 





lip. 



Strap handles: 



Attached to lip... . . 



Abundant 





Abundant .. 









Attached below lip 















Decorated 



do 





Rare . 









Converging sides . 



..do 









Straight sides 







do 









Rim: 



Straight 



Medium 









Abundant— . 

 Medium 





Slightly flaring 



Flaring ... 



do 



..do— . 











Lip: 



Narrowed and 











Rare 



Medium 



Abundant.. . 





rounded. 

 Rounded 













Flattened and 



Rare 











rounded. 













i Only three loop and no strap handles present. 

 3 Present but not common. 



At Site No. 19 some of the handles had sides which converged 

 from the lip to the shoulder attachment and in that feature tended 

 toward the common Fort Ancient type of strap handle. The sherds 

 in the Ceramic Repository indicate that the average handle at Site 

 No. 19 is larger than at Site No. 11. Furthermore, at the former 

 site it is often associated with a frog effigy vessel — a type that is 

 completely absent at the latter site. 



