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and almost no ash. The mixture consisted of some charcoal and in- 

 trusive stones with a few potsherds and animal bones. Near the 

 bottom of the pit two pottery pipes, a bison scapula digging tool, and 

 several fragments of hematite " red paint " were found. The situation 

 in cache 2 was therefore closely similar to that in cache i, house i. 

 Both extended into very hard soil, and both because of their depth 

 required a great deal of labor. Trial pits and auger borings in the 

 bottom and walls of cache 2 revealed no traces of mixture outside 

 or below the area mentioned. 



Cache 3 (fig. 19) was in the southwest corner of the house and 

 was definite in outline. It was 42 inches in greatest diameter and 

 extended down to a depth of 7 feet below the surface and 4 feet 

 6 inches below the floor line. It was round in outline, having a narrow 

 mouth about 2 feet wide and a rounded bottom. The material in the 



Fig. 21. — Cross-section, west to east, house 2, Gates site. 



cache was heavily mixed with ash and contained a large amount of 

 cultural debris. Above the mouth of the cache and just north of it 

 occurred three pottery pipes, one compete and two broken, one of 

 the latter being well modeled as a face (pi. 16, fig. i, a, b). The pipes 

 occurred just on and under the floor line. The cache pit itself yielded 

 many potsherds, animal bones, mollusk shells, and one charred 

 " bean ". The latter was unfortunately lost in packing, hence could 

 not be positively identified. 



Pottery 

 House 2 was much smaller than house i, yet it yielded almost three 

 times as much pottery. The following ceramic remains came from 

 house 2 : 



Complete pots, i. 



Restored pots, i. ,- 



Total number of sherds, 1,323 (rims and handles 104, body, 1,219). 



Cord-marked sherds, 259 (rims and handles 5, body 254). 



Plain-ware sherds, 1,025 (rims and handles 99, body 926). 



Incised sherds, 35 (rims and handles 0, body 35). 



Sherds with slip (?), 4 (rims and handles 0, body 4). 



