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[[underlined]] Chapter XVIII. [[/underlined]]  388.

the vessels on which they occurred. Either on this slip (where one was used) or else directly on the burnished surface of the vessel itself, the design was then painted. When the slips were white or pale gray, patterns were invariably executed in black or dark brown; but elsewhere other colors also were employed.
  At Wa Cha Hsieh, potsherds of the painted ware seemed to occur rather more profusely in the larger and more richly furnished pit-dwellings; though the associated culture remained the same throughout. This apparent fact may just possibly denote some kind of social or even ethnic distinction among the ancient inhabitants; although to base upon it conclusions of any sort as to the occurrence of painted pottery in prehistoric China would, in the present state of our knowledge, be decidedly unsafe.

[[underlined]] Other Objects of Earthenware. [[/underlined]]
  Other objects of earthenware found at Wa Cha Hsieh were whistles, some of which could still be blown; representations of [[strikethrough]] [[phalloim?]] [[/strikethrough]] phalli; numerous highly conventionalized heads of birds, apparently those of owls (p1. 60, figs. 1, 2, and 3 respectively); innumerable discoidal and perforated spinning-whorls averaging from 2 to 3 [[underlined]] cm. [[/underlined]] in diameter; and great quantities of baked clay balls (see pp. 360 and 392-a).

[[underlined]] Tempering and firing.  [[/underlined]]
  In both the coarse gray and the reddish-buff wares, the material used for tempering was quartz sand which varied in fineness according to the size of vessel to be made. Both kinds of pottery appeared to have been baked not in open fires but in regular kilns, several of which the excavators found (pl. 58).

[[underlined]] Conclusions as to the Pottery 
 at Wa Cha Hsieh. [[/underlined]]
  In general, the pottery at Wa Cha Hsieh, as elsewhere in prehistoric