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In general, then, it appears that house i pottery is usually globular 

 or bowl-shaped, the large " olla " type (pi. 13, fig. 2) and the wide- 

 mouthed bowl (pi. 14, fig. I, a) being common types. With one excep- 

 tion, a single broken sherd suggesting a flat bottom, all the pottery 

 from this house is round-bottomed. As the foregoing description indi- 

 cates, there is a wide range in the size of vessels (compare pis. 13, fig. 

 2, and 14, fig. I, e). The same variation occurs in regard to their thick- 

 ness, which ranges from 4 to 12 mm. The openings of all the vessels 

 are round, and there is usually a slightly flaring rim. Handles and lugs 

 are common, and modeled features such as the hand and bird pre- 

 viously mentioned occur, though less frequently. Collars on the vessels 

 are extremely rare (two cases) and incised designs do not occur on 

 the neck and very rarely on the body of the pots. 



No complete tobacco pipes were found in house 2, but two frag- 

 ments of what appear to have been pottery pipes came to light. Both of 

 these are of light-brown pottery tempered with fine grit. One is 

 cylindrical with a smoke-blackened hole through the center and has five 

 finely incised lines slanting around part of the outer surface. It was 

 evidently the stem of a tubular or very slightly bent pipe. The other 

 fragment is about the same size (24 mm long by 12 mm in diameter) 

 but is slightly darker on the outside and shows no burning within. 

 Only half of this section is present, and it may have been part of a 

 lug or handle rather than a pipe. 



Work in Ground Stone 



Eight shaft polishers of rather coarse white or gray sandstone come 

 from house 2. Of these five are roughly rectangular, four having one 

 groove, and one having grooves on three sides. The widest groove is 

 I cm, and the specimen, which is fairly typical, measures 65 mm in 

 length and 40 mm in width. Another small rectangular polisher is only 

 30 mm in length and has one broad groove on each face and one 

 narrow groove on each edge. A small, flat piece of sandstone 60 mm 

 long and 35 mm wide has two parallel grooves on one side and two 

 diagonal grooves on the other. One broken shaft polisher (pi. 17, 

 fig. I, c) is 40 mm in length and has one groove. 



Eight hammerstones were also found in this house. The best speci- 

 men (pi. 17, fig. I, /) is yy mm in diameter, with ground-out concave 

 sides for holding. On the top is a small artificial pit which con- 

 veniently fits the forefinger, and exactly opposite from this pit is the 

 battered striking surface. This type of artifact from its worn surfaces 

 appears to have also served as a rubbing stone. Of these hammer- 

 stones four are of granite, three of limestone, and of the latter two 



