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0213 Explorations in Turkestan : Expedition of 1904 : vol.1
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might very easily have gotten by accident into the middle layers. Taken as a
whole, group c belongs decidedly to the lower and lowest strata of the northern
kurgan.

Technique.—The fragments of group c were so characteristic and deviated so
widely in their technique from those of group a, that upon their first appearance
they were at once regarded as something special. Their clay is especially well

washed, almost always light-brown, having very rarely reddish shade, and very
firm and hard-burnt. Traces of the potters' wheel were not observed, and as
hand-work the vessels are excellent achievements. On the surface there is a
very thin, fine, light-brown or light reddish-brown color-slip. A noticeable fact is
the absence of all polish, the surface remaining dull and mat (see plate 22).