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from this site include both an elaborately incised (and modeled) mono- 

 chrome ware and three polychrome (Polychrome I) rim sherds. The 

 former type is brown to red in color and is unslipped but highly 

 polished in most cases. Flat-bottomed vases; jars with round bodies, 

 contracted orifices, and flaring rims ; and jars with annular bases are 

 represented. The sherds are badly weathered but show traces of 

 rather elaborate incised decoration. There are nine cylindrical feet ; 

 the majority are hollow and rather long with incised and punctate 

 decoration ; two suggest conventionalized alligator heads and two 

 similar human figures. There are 11 lugs of an elaborately modeled 

 type. One is almost identical with a lug from Helena Island (pi. 18, 

 fig. 2, e), and one (fig. 32, b) vividly represents the head of a howling 

 monkey " howling ". Three rim sherds are of thin, polychrome ware 

 (indubitably Polychrome I, like pi. 21). They are from cylindrical 

 vases with slightly flaring rims and have an orange slip, three black 

 rings around the neck, and black and red-purple body designs. The 

 latter are too badly weathered for the designs to be made out. There 

 is one broken lug, probably of the iguana type. 



Besides pottery fragments there is one excellently worked ear spool 

 (1.3 cm in diameter) made of what appears to be gray jade (pi. 17, It). 

 There are also a small, ovoid, incised pendant of green talc (2 cm in 

 length) with three dots suggesting a human face, and two cylindrical 

 beads of green talc. The only bones present were a few from some 

 species of small bird. The nature of this site is not clear, but from the 

 type of material present (elaborate monochrome and thin Polychrome I 

 pottery, with jade and talc ornaments) it would appear to have been a 

 previously disturbed ofifertory. 



PINE RIDGE 



A somewhat similar but less interesting and smaller lot of material 

 was collected by Bird on Pine Ridge (map, fig. 33). There are no 

 notes or photographs referring to this site but it can be located in a 

 general way on the map. There are some 10 potsherds, all of red, 

 unslipped (monochrome) ware. One is the rim of a small jar with 

 flaring lips, several are from open bowls with extremely rude in- 

 cisions, and there are a few vertical loop handles and two small lugs. 

 One of these is a conglomeration of globules, each with a punctate 

 mark, the other the head and curved pointed beak of a bird in profile 

 (fig. T,2, a). Three much-weathered pottery disks (9 to 12.5 cm in 

 diameter) are designated as " pot lids " by Bird, but I am inclined to 

 regard them as the broken-out bottoms of cylindrical jars. There is 



