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packed area surrounded by post molds, evidently a horse corral. 

 Pawnee burials of this period are single inhumations, usually flexed, 

 grouped on high hills near the villages. Gifts of various sorts occur 

 with the bodies and they are often wrapped in reed matting. Caucasian 

 artifacts, such as metal containers, reworked iron hoes, bridle bits, gun 

 barrels, rifle balls, knife blades, scrap metal, and a little glass occur in 

 house sites, cache pits, and burials in association with pottery and 

 aboriginal artifacts. Horse remains are very common in cache pits and 

 refuse deposits, along with bison, elk, deer, bird, and numerous animal 

 bones. In fact horse and bison bones appear to constitute the bulk of 

 the animal remains. Vegetal remains, charred corn predominating, are 

 fairly numerous in cache pits and houses, and occasionally in graves. 

 All these matters are discussed in detail by Wedel and need only be 

 mentioned here. 



Pawnee pottery of this period is very characteristic and fairly abun- 

 dant, though complete pots are rare. Enough of the latter have been 

 recovered, however, to fill in details regarding size and shape. All the 

 pottery appears to have been hand molded, perhaps with a paddle and 

 anvil stone. Two main wares have been distinguished. The most 

 abundant of these (pi. i, fig. i, a. h, c, d, f, i, k, l) has a smooth paste 

 with fine grit temper, often containing considerable mica. It is light 

 buff ranging to gray in color, with a rough, irregular surface rubbed 

 fairly smooth in some cases but rarely polished. Cord marks are noted 

 occasionally on the body but are usually almost obliterated by subse- 

 quent rubbing. They do not occur on the necks of vessels. The pots 

 are characteristically small to medium in size, globular in shape, with 

 a more or less constricted neck. Especially characteristic is a collarlike 

 rim from i to 3 inches in width (pi. i, fig. 1, a, h, c, d, I) decorated 

 with incised lines. In many cases tabs extend down from this collar 

 and often these tabs are extended to the neck, forming a series of loop 

 handles (pi. i, fig. i, b, c). The rim itself is often decorated by a 

 series of straight or diagonal notches (pi. i, fig. i, h, c). The collar 

 designs are especially characteristic and limited to four main types, an 

 incised line forming a series of triangles filled in by hachuring (pi. i, 

 fig. I, a, d, f) being most common, series of chevrons, herringbone, 

 and simple diagonal lines (pi. i, fig. i,h, c) also being employed. The 

 pieces illustrated (pi. i, fig. i) are all from the Hill site and show 

 the lack of finish characteristic of decoration in this period. Lines are 

 irregular and the work is careless in the extreme. The fixed tradition 

 of form and decoration combined with a fundamentally advanced 

 pottery technique are in marked contrast to the lack of interest dis- 

 played in finish and decoration. Quite obviously the pottery makers of 



