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As indicated in the enumeration of ceramic remains from this house, 

 there were two small rim sherds of a plain, straight-necked type, 

 which seemed to be covered with chalky white slip. The outer sur- 

 face of the sherds is a gray-white, and the interior is a light bluish 

 white. The white coloration does not rub off, and since the ware is 

 thin, it almost permeates the sherds from both sides. One small 

 body sherd, 30 mm long, is closely similar but has four broad, deeply 

 incised lines on the outer surface, apparently arranged in a chevron 

 pattern. All four of these sherds are very different from the bulk 

 of the pottery but are closely similar to sherds previously described 

 from houses 2 and 5 at Rock Bluffs. 



The tobacco pipe found in the pit at the end of the entrance pas- 

 sage in huuse i has already been mentioned. It is 48 mm high, of a 

 gray-brown pottery tempered with fine grit (pi. 16, lig. 2, b). The 

 tip of the stem, which forms an elbow, is broken and the interior of 

 the bowl and stem perforation are black from use. The bowl interior 

 matches the shape of the outer surface, but the stem is perforated by 

 only a small round hole. 



In the east-central part of the house a fragment either of the stem 

 of a similar pipe or of the lower portion of a tubular pipe was re- 

 covered (pi. 16, fig. 2, /). This fragment is 40 mm long and perfectly 

 conical, having a rounded tip with a straight, small perforation 

 through the stem. It is of well-polished red-brown pottery containing 

 fine grit tempering and the central perforation is black from use. 



Work in Ground Stone 



Three shaft polishers of sandstone come from this house. One 

 is of the "nail buffer" type (pi. 17, fig. i, /;). Only the bottom of 

 this artifact has a groove, but the two sides as well as the bottom sur- 

 face are worn smooth from grinding. Bits of reddish clay adhering 

 to these sides indicate that it was used as a polishing stone for pottery 

 as well as a shaft polisher. Another shaft polisher has grooves on 

 three of the four flattened surfaces. The specimen is 60 mm long, 

 25 mm wide and high, and the deepest of the three grooves is 5 mm. 

 The third shaft polisher is slightly smaller and has two fiat surfaces 

 and two grooves. Besides the grooved polishers of sandstone there 

 is also a flat, irregular fragment, 42 mm in greatest length, with red 

 paint (probably hematite) rather thick on the grinding surface. 

 Another polishing stone of harder rock also has one smooth surface 

 tinted red, evidently from polishing pottery. Three pieces of pumice 

 stone, or the peculiar baked clay previously described were found. 



