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collection. All three of the ahove vessels have a buff surface patination 

 with the underlying brick-red color showing through wherever they 

 are worn or 1)roken. 



Four small saucerlike vessels come from this site (pi. 8, fig. 2, h, c). 

 Three of these are shallow with round bottoms. They average 7.5 cm 

 in diameter. The fourth (pi. 8, fig. 2, h) has a fiattened bottom and 

 a raised rim. All are crude in modeling and are various tones of 

 brown, red, and buff". Their purpose, whether utilitarian or for offer- 

 tory models, is problematical. 



An interesting canoe-shai>ed type is represented by two vessels 

 (pi. 8, fig. 2, d, e). The larger of these was found close to the central 

 offering. It was apparently broken when deposited but has been re- 

 stored from the nearly complete portion recovered (pi. 8, fig. 2, e). 

 The modeling, although rather crude, definitely suggests a " pitpan " 

 or river canoe in form. The piece is of the brick-red pottery with 

 gray-buff' patination. It has been poorly fired, being black in mid- 

 section with rather coarse sand for tempering. The second vessel of 

 this type (pi. 8, fig. 2, d) is rather different, having depressed, 

 rounded, and incised ends. One end of the upper edge is notched. Its 

 color, tempering, and modeling are similar to those of the vessel just 

 described. A boat form is suggested, but this is far less definite than 

 in the former case, and a bird or animal form may have been intended. 

 Unfortunately, the larger troughlike pottery object behind the central 

 offering (see pi. 6, fig. i) was not preserved. Its general form 

 faintly suggests a canoe, but it lacked any definite bow or stern ex- 

 tension. It was of the same type of pottery as the two pieces just 

 described but was considera1:)ly larger than either. 



Owing to the difiiculty of removing material from this inaccessible 

 site in the short time at our disposal, only a small sample of the 

 abundant broken pottery could be brought out. This small sherd 

 collection adds some details missing in our discussion of the more 

 complete pieces. It shows that large, well-made vases with intricate 

 and highly conventional vertical lugs were represented. These large 

 lugs, well represented in the Indian Hill collection (see pi. 24, h), are 

 obviously the original types from which the small crude miniature 

 vessels (pi. 8, fig. i) were modeled. There are also two small hori- 

 zontal lugs, with punctate or incised decoration, that are especially 

 characterized by projections or " horns " at each end and a de- 

 pressed center. A heavy, red rim sherd with deep, firm incisions 

 and punctate marks represents a fragment of one of the large, 

 utilitarian, cylindrical vases. Three brick-red pottery fragments, very 

 heavy and coarse, are covered with incised circles each about i cm 



