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" blue " and poorly fired in their central section. The incised sherds 

 were almost black throughout. About half the sherds were cord- 

 marked by the paddle technique, whereas the plain sherds were 

 smoothly polished but without burnish. 



The rim sherds, while limited in range of types owing to the small 

 number recovered, fall into the same classes as those from houses i 

 and 2. One type with a slight collar and incisions extending from the 

 greatest diameter of the collar toward the neck (pi. 15, fig. 2, c) is 

 confined to the Gates site, houses i and 3. Using the same rim classifi- 

 cation employed for both the Rock Bluff cemetery and Gates site 

 houses, the distribution occurs in the limited collection from house 3 

 as indicated in table 6, p. 253. 



The three incised sherds from this house have linear designs 

 extending from below the neck over the larger part of the body. 

 They consist of diagonal and occasionally intersecting lines suggesting 

 the patterns already illustrated (pis. 14, fig. i, c; 15, fig. i, d ; fig. 2, /). 

 The thin, hard quality of this incised pottery is rather in contrast with 

 the more abundant and heavier unincised ware. Briefly, then, it may 

 be said that the scant ceramic remains from house 3 conform in all 

 major details to those from the other Gates site houses and add noth- 

 ing that is new. 



Other Artifacts 



Of ground stone artifacts only sandstone shaft polishers and frag- 

 ments of hematite and limonite paint stones were recovered. There 

 are two polishers, one 63 mm, the other 35 mm in length. The first 

 has a single groove on each of the four faces and one groove across 

 the end ; all the grooves are variable in width and depth. The smaller 

 polisher is irregular with four grooves on one face, three on the other, 

 and two on one side. There are four pieces of mineral paint, three 

 of hematite, one of yellow-white limonite. 



Of chipped stone artifacts, three well-worked end scrapers of the 

 small planoconvex type were recovered. They range from 52 to 50 mm 

 in length. A fragmentary diamond-shaped chipped stone piece sug- 

 gesting a small knife blade is the only other definite artifact. Besides 

 the above there are 18 worked fragments of chert and flint. Some of 

 these are crude flake knives, and one core, which is roughly four- 

 sided, seems to have been used for hammering. 



HOUSE 4 



On March 29, 193 1, a test pit was sunk in house pit 4 near the 

 north end of the Gates site village (fig. 15). This was done in order to 

 determine whether the houses in this part of the village represented 



