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specimens, showing field numbers, provenience, type of sherd (whether 

 rim or body), and whether the pieces actually fit together or merely 

 match. Usually the association is between specimens from two squares, 

 seldom over 10 or 20 feet apart, or between a square and a nearby pit. 

 In some cases pieces from neighboring squares came out of different 

 levels. The fact that pieces of the same pot sometimes were found in 

 different pits does not indicate necessarily that the two pits were open 

 or in use at the same moment ; conceivably, whereas most of a shattered 

 vessel would be thrown out as soon as possible, a stray fragment might 

 lie around the lodge for some time. "Wlien finally discarded, the pit 

 that received most of the pot might be already filled in, so that the 

 later piece or pieces would find their way into another. Most widely 

 dispersed were the matched sherds of a well-made pot, partly illus- 

 trated by two sherds in pi, 7, /*?, 7n. Of the six sherds (item 19, table 4) , 

 four were from the east part of our diggings, and two from pit 19. 

 This pit is not shown on the map of excavations, since it lay in the new 

 roadcut about 50 yards west of our diggings and nearly 70 yards from 

 the point where the other four sherds in question were unearthed. 



Aside from the sherds and vessels described above, there was rela- 

 tively little work in clay. Two complete miniature pots and a portion 

 of a third may have been the product of a child or other unskilled 

 craftsman, or perchance were made for some purpose other than 

 those met by the usual larger vessels. All are roughly and ineptly 

 modeled. One has a hemispherical body, a poorly defined shoulder, 

 and a slightly constricted neck which rises vertically to the rounded 

 uneven lip (pi. 11, d). The walls average 5 mm. in thickness, slightly 

 more at the shoulder. About 4 mm. below the lip, on opposite sides, 

 are two small perforations each 4 mm. in diameter. One of these 

 can be seen in the illustration; the other has been partly obscured 

 by breaking out of the rim above. The pot, 39 mm. in diameter, is 

 made of dark gray flaky paste, tempered with small white opaque 

 particles, and has no decoration. The second piece is bowl-shaped 

 (pi. 11, e), with a diameter of 45 mm. A circular fracture just below 

 the rim may suggest the former presence of a handle. The surfaces 

 and lip are very uneven. Color varies from dirty white to light buff; 

 the temper is uncertain, but very fine sand grains are visible. The 

 third is a fragment from a jar shaped somewhat like that shown in 

 plate 11, c?, which originally may have stood about 40 mm. high. The 

 surface, which is soft, friable, and slightly gritty to the touch, is 

 pink to gray in color, with a gray core between inner and outer sur- 

 faces. The clay contains fine sand grains, with an occasional large 

 angular fragment of calcareous matter visible. 



