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Plate 19 



Sterns Creek culture, Walker Gilmore site 



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Fig. I. a, complete pot ; b, restored pot, Sterns Creek culture 187 



Fig. 2. P'xposure of Sterns Creek culture strata in bank opposite waist of 



human figure 175 



Fig. 3. Similar deep exposure of white ash in hearth (between the two 



figures) 175 



Fig. 4. Fragments of Sterns Creek culture pottery near surface at A 



( see map, fig. 24 ) 196 



Pi.ATF, 20 



Mound and quarry trench, Cass County 



Fig. I. " Mound " i above Walker Gilmore site 1S2 



Fig. 2. Excavating " mound " i, above Walker Gilmore site 182 



Fig. 3. Old quarry trench A, Weeping Water site 203 



Plate 21 

 Upper Republican culture artifacts from various sites 



Fig. I. a, pot found south of Republican River near Franklin; /', pot from 

 house 2, Lost Creek ; c. d, pipe and bison ulnae tools from house 

 2, Lost Creek (photographs courtesy of J. P. Spence) loi 



Fig. 2. Rim sherds from Medicine Creek sites a-d, and from Sweet-water 



site e-m 240-242 



Plate 22 



Dismal River potsherds ; and fossilized, burned bone with artifacts from 



Sarpy County 



Fig. I. Potsherds from surface of three sites on the Dismal River, a. h, c, 



e, thick, hole-tempered ware ; d, f-m, thin, smooth ware ;n (?).... 215 



Fig. 2. fl, excavating in gravel bed containing burned fossil bone and flint 

 artifacts. Bird Creek, Sarpy County; b-f, i, j, k. artifacts and flint 

 fragments ; g, h, l-q, fossil bone fragments 217 



Plate 23 

 Stratified site on tlie summit of Signal Butte, Scotts Bluff County 



Fig. I. Signal Butte from the east, showing break with main escarpment 



of the Wildcat Hills 224 



Fig. 2. Cross-section exposure near center of butte (w'est face of row i) 

 showing three levels of occupation (I-III), underlying sands, 

 and basic cap rock (compare with fig. 29) 227 



Fig. 3. Exposure on south edge of butte (north face of section E, east face 

 of row 5) showing thick, black nature of level L (Level III over- 

 lies level II so closely at this point that they are difficult to 

 distinguish. ) 228 



