6 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 0,'J 



possible to refine the traits as fully as desired, owing to differences 

 in terminology in the sources used and to inability to examine all the 

 material at first hand. It is believed, however, that the data are 

 sufficiently extensive and representative to be strongly indicative of 

 trends, at least. 



Table i. — Presence or Absence of Traits in the Historic Paimiee, the Lower 

 Loup Focus, and the Oneota Aspect 



ABC 



Lower 

 Historic Loup Oneota 

 Pawnee Focus Aspect 



I. Architecture and Village Complex 

 Villages 



1. Large, intensively occupied sites x x x 



2. Walled or defensively located x x 



3. Numerous outside caches x 



Houses 



4. Shallow semisubterranean circular earth-covered... x x 



5. Vestibule entrance in east or south x x 



6. Unlined central firepit x x 



7. Bison-skull shrine opposite door x x 



8. Four main central posts x x 



9. More than four central posts x x 



10. One or two rows of widely spaced outer posts x x 



11. Inside caches x x 



12. Numerous small, closely set, slanting wall posts x x 



II. Ceramic Complex 

 Temper 



13. Grit X X 



14. Shell X X 



Texture 



15. Fine to medium coarse x x x 



Structure 



16. Flaky X X X 



17. Granular • x 



Hardness 



18. 1-4, softer predominating x 



19. 3-6, 4-5 predominating x x 



Surface finish 



20. Irregularly smoothed x x x 



21. Polished (imperfectly) x x x 



22. Marked by grooved paddle x x 



Color 



23. Light to dark gray and buff, dull terra cotta x x x 



Thickness 



24. s\-M inch range x x x 



Lip form 



25. Squared x x x 



26. Rounded x x x 



