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8 inches in one small area. His small collection includes i6 much- 

 weathered, red to brown (monochrome) sherds and lugs. The body 

 sherds are rather plain, but the lugs include several of the vertical, 

 centrally constricted type (compare fig. 26), a manatee head type, a 

 snouted animal head, one conventionalized human figure, and a bird 

 head (fig. 32, c). Two pottery balls from hollow leg rattles were 

 found. Besides pottery, two disk beads of green talc and two cylindri- 

 cal granite hammerstones are in the collection. 



Payne's collection includes one complete shallow pottery plate 

 (11.5 cm in diameter), and about two dozen sherds. All but one are 

 of a uniform pinkish-red color without any slip, but the majority have 

 rather elaborate incising and modeling. Two fragments are from 

 open bowls with round bottoms, vertical, slightly concave walls, and 

 slightly flaring lips ; both have a well-executed incised step design on 

 the walls. Two rim sherds are from large open bowls with an elaborate 

 incised panel of double scrolls, each terminating in two dots on the 

 side. Six others are from small bowls with low flaring or swollen 

 rims, and elaborate geometric incisions. A fragment of a heavy loop 

 handle has a conventionalized manatee head modeled on the bend and 

 a polished brown surface but no visible paint. In form, at least, it 

 suggests the Polychrome II type of handle (fig. 11, a, d). There 

 are three elaborate and grotesque vertical lugs, one representing an 

 alligator head ; the others are too conventionalized for determination. 

 Of the three detached and broken feet, two have human faces where 

 they join the body of the bowl, and the third suggests a manatee 

 flipper. 



As a whole, the ceramic sample from the top of Stanley Hill is of 

 high grade, elaborately incised and modeled monochrome ware and 

 suggests a ceremonial rather than a utilitarian deposit. 



KELLY HILL 



In Bird's collection from Bonacca there is a small but very in- 

 teresting lot of material from Kelly (or Kellie's) Hill, but there are 

 no notes, map references, or photographs by which this hill may be 

 located. I am inclined to believe that this is a somewhat higher peak 

 to the west of Stanley Hill (see map, fig. 33) and have tentatively 

 designated it as such, subject to future correction." The potsherds 



^ While this report was in preparation, Mr. Bird was in Bolivia, and later in 

 Labrador; hence it was impossible to consult him. In October 1934, however, 

 just as this paper was going to press, he was in Washington. He confirmed the 

 above general location and added to or corrected certain other points. 



