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somewhat earlier period than site i, and that the polychrome and 

 elaborately incised pottery, plus the green stone carvings, all charac- 

 teristic of the upper layers at site i, had not yet come into vogue on 

 the islands when the site 2 offertory was in use. 



This conclusion leans rather heavily on the observed stratification 

 of types at site i, and it is freely admitted that this support is not 

 beyond question. Nevertheless, there is no doubt that the site 2 

 monochrome pottery is identical with the same type of ware from 

 site I, with the exception that certain more or less elaborate types are 

 missing; nor that the Polychrome I pottery of site i is absent from 

 site 2. It is hardly conceivable that social stratification in the same 

 group at the same period could account for these differences, since 

 nearly all of the ceramics were deposited in a broken condition, and 

 had the two accumulations been simultaneous, some of the polychrome 

 and more elaborate monochrome ware would almost certainly have 

 found its way into site 2. It is tentatively concluded, therefore, that 

 site I is later than site 2. Since the connection between the super- 

 ficially unlike Polychrome I and the monochrome wares has been 

 demonstrated, it would thus appear that the influences leading to the 

 development of the Polychrome I (and probably, the definite Uloa 

 River type of incised decoration) were not active on Barburata Island 

 at the time when the site 2 offertory was in use. 



Considering the divergent nature of the two offertories on Indian 

 Hill, it is extremely unfortunate that the Mitchell-Hedges collection, 

 assigned to Barburata Island, is not segregated according to sites, 

 since his men worked in both offertories. The storage collection from 

 this island in the Museum of the American Indian is very extensive 

 and contains a large number of complete pottery vessels. Most strik- 

 ing is a tremendous number of simple monochrome (red to buff") 

 vessels, predominantly with round or ovoid bodies and low to medium 

 flaring spouts. A few, of the same general form, have markedly 

 constricted necks and medium to long, bottlelike spouts. The uni- 

 formity and nature of this pottery makes it highly probable that this 

 is the collection from site 2 referred to by Joe Saba. With this 

 probable exception the remainder of the material must be discussed as 

 a unit, although our own investigations, coupled with the observations 

 of Joe Saba, indicate that the polychrome pottery and more elaborate 

 artifact types came from site i rather than site 2. Polychrome I 

 pottery is represented by a large collection of sherds. This accords 

 very closely with the material we obtained from site i, which has just 



