484 



ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 19 3 9 



interest to return to Virginia and refer, briefly, to the occurrence 

 of similar material southward to Tampa Bay. 



Conditions in North Carolina are not different from those en- 

 countered in Virgina. Four stone vessels from the western part of 

 the State are illustrated in plate 9. In addition to these the National 

 Museum collections include many fragments of soapstone utensils 

 from other western counties, and from Stanly and Franklin Counties 

 in the central part of the State; also specimens from a village site 

 one mile northeast of Stella, Carteret County, on the Atlantic coast. 

 Thus it is possible to trace the use of soapstone across the entire 

 width of the State, from the mountains to the sea. 



Figure 5. — Tennessee. Fragment of a vessel, Cocke County. U. S. N. M. No. 34748. 



Much material has been recovered from village sites in eastern 

 Tennessee. One fragment, from Cocke County which touches the 

 North Carolina line, suggests the large vessel from Burke County in 

 the latter State. A drawing of this vessel, restored as suggested by 

 its form, is shown in figure 5. The two localities are only a short 

 distance apart, and the specimens undoubtedly belonged to the same 

 period. 



Decorated soapstone vessels are seldom found, and consequently 

 fragments of two examples from South Carolina are of much in- 

 terest. Both are shown in figure 6. One is a rim fragment with a 

 handle extending from the edge. The entire surface is smoothed 

 and polished. The flat surface of the handle, flush with the edge 



