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angles filled with hatching, rather similar to the design shown on the 

 complete pot (pi. 14, fig. i, c). The other incised fragments suggest 

 similar designs, and for this purpose various broad and sharp pointed 

 gravers seem to have been employed. 



A comparison of rim types from house 2 (table 6, p. 253) with the 

 rim sherd types from houses 2 and 5 at Rock Blufifs and house i , Gates 

 site, will demonstrate the general uniformity of these wares. Similarly, 

 a comparison with the rim sherds from house i, Lost Creek, and the 

 Prairie Dog Creek ossuary will indicate rather striking dififerences 

 between these and the above groups so far as ceramic decoration is 

 concerned. 



The form of the pottery from house 2, Gates site, is best indicated 

 by a complete and a restored vessel from this site. The complete pot 

 (pi. 14, fig. I, c) was found in cache i. It is 90 mm in height, 79 mm 

 across the mouth, and averages 5 mm in thickness. Its globular form, 

 slightly fiaring lip, and two loop handles are indicated in the illustra- 

 tion. It is interesting to note that the two loop handles are placed a 

 little to one side of the median line. The outer surface is a rich smoky 

 brown with an oily luster, the latter probably the result of boiling in 

 maize ( ?) oil subsequent to firing. The inside is rough and gray in 

 coloration. Aside from handles, fiaring lip, and surface polish it is 

 decorated by a crude design incised aroimd the mid body. This design 

 consists of a heavy angular line, the upper angles being filled with 

 converging rays, whereas the lower angles have parallel hatching. 

 The design is complete and effective but rough and uneven in 

 execution. 



The restored pot (pi. 14, fig. i, b) is considerably smaller and 

 simpler than the above. It is 70 mm high, 66 mm across the mouth, 

 and averages about 3 mm in thickness. It, too, is globular with slightly 

 flaring lip. The fragments from which it was restored had no handles 

 nor is it probable that there were any on the original pot. The outer 

 color is a somewhat smoke-stained yellow-bufif, and the interior is the 

 same color without any dark stains. The ware is thin and hard with 

 fine grit tempering. Although many of the sherds recovered suggest 

 considerably larger pots than the above, the general shapes indicated 

 by such sherds are very similar. 



House 2 yielded three complete and two fragmentary pottery pipes, 

 all of which are of a modified elbow type. The most striking of these 

 is the bowl of a pipe representing a human face (pi. 16, fig. i, a, b). 

 Using the bowl of the pipe as a head, the native artist had made a 

 huge nose with incised nostrils, a twisted mouth, and slanting eyes, 

 below which appear to be tear channels running down the cheeks. 



