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The face is outlined by a deep, even, incised line and the ears are 

 represented with what appear to be ornaments in them. The face, 

 although grotesque, is very lifelike, and on close scrutiny one gets 

 the impression from it of a man undergoing severe torture. The stem 

 end has been broken ofif, but enough curve remains to indicate that 

 the pipe was of the semielbow or trumpet type. The blackened bowl 

 takes up all the interior of the face portion, which is 50 mm in length 

 and 20 mm across. There is only a very small perforation passing 

 from the bowl through the upper portion of the stem. It is composed 

 of a hard brown pottery with a rough finish and was found just above 

 the floor line about i foot north of cache 3. Another decorated pipe 

 of much the same type came from the same area (pi. 16, fig. 2, d). It 

 is made of similar rough brown pottery, is 20 mm across the bowl 

 and has an upper segment of 40 mm and a lower segment of 45 mm. 

 On the outer surface of the bowl are two incised bird tracks, each 

 with a long hind toe. Fragments of still another pipe of similar 

 material were found just above cache 3. Although too small in their 

 restored condition (pi. 16, fig. 2, /) to be certain as to shape, they 

 strongly suggest the tip end of a similar pipe. 



From cache 2 come two more pottery pipes of the same general 

 type. One of these, restored from several associated fragments, is a 

 very large trumpet-shaped pipe broken off just above the base of the 

 bowl (pi. 16, fig. 2, a). Even in its broken condition it is by far the 

 largest pipe from any of our Nebraska sites. It is also of rough brown 

 pottery and has a basal length of 60 mm and an upper length of 55 mm 

 to where it is broken off. Its diameter across the base of the bowl is 25 

 mm. Both the bowl and the small perforation through the stem are 

 blackened from use. Another smaller pipe with a more flaring bowl 

 from cache 2 was intact when found (pi. 16, fig. 2, h). It is made of 

 light buff pottery with a coarse, unpolished surface. The bowl is 

 15 mm in diameter, its basal length 30 mm, and its upper length 25 mm. 

 It showed less evidence of use than any of the others. As a group it 

 can be said that the pipes from house 2 are notable for their number, 

 their uniformity, and, in one case especially, for their excellent 

 modeling. 



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Four rectangular shaft polishers of brown sandstone come from 

 house 2. One of these has a narrow groove on each of the four faces ; 

 one has a deep broad groove on one face and two faint grooves on 

 the sides. This artifact is heavily stained on the edges with red hema- 

 tite paint. The two smaller artifacts have four deep grooves which in 



