44 BULLETIN 18 3, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



The only definite attempt to represent life forms in clay is a rather 

 mediocre imitation of a bird (pi. 11, g) of unidentifiable species. 

 The tail, if it may be so termed, is nothing more than a blunt rounding 

 termination of the body. On one side of the head is a punch-mark, 

 apparently made with a grass stem, to indicate the eye. The surface 

 is cracked and fissured, but there was no attempt to mark wings or 

 feet. The color is a uniform light buff. 



Fashioned with much more care was the object illustrated in plate 

 11, a. This is of dark gray fine compact hard clay, apparently molded 

 and fired, then ground to its present form. It is funnel-shaped, with 

 a roundish uneven lip surrounding a well smoothed cavity 15 mm. deep. 

 Both interior and exterior surfaces, but especially the latter, have fine 

 scratches, such as might result from use of a sandstone grinding tool. 

 The stem, which is solid, tapers to a diameter of 11 mm., and is ground 

 off square at the end. In shape, the cupped end is elliptical, and it 

 measures 45 by 38 mm. ; the height is 34 mm. It was found in pit 12, 

 along with the similarlj^ shaped but slightly smaller limestone object, 

 h in the plate, which has been described in another section. 



WORK IN ANTLER AND BONE 



Objects of antler and bone, showing definite evidence of human 

 workmanship, were generally in good condition. Deer antler, both, 

 tines and shafts, was freely utilized, though not for a very great 

 variety of implement types. From several pits came more or less 

 complete sets of antler, perhaps laid aside by the natives and intended 

 for later use. Some show evidences of cutting or hacking with stone 

 tools ; others appear to have been gnawed by rodents. 



Quite common, relatively speaking, were curved subcylindrical 

 sections of dressed antler such as are shown in pi. 9, h-j. All have 

 been carefully worked down, so that the rough natural surface, except 

 in an occasional small area, is absent. Striae on several suggest that 

 sandstone abraders were used, after which surfaces were given a final 

 polish by rubbing. The ends are rounded and usually surpass in 

 smoothness the sides of the objects. Some were cut from the proximal 

 end of the antler as shown by a swelling at one end where normally 

 the "burr" occurs at the base of the horn. Rarely the diameter is uni- 

 form throughout. The series includes eight specimens, of which seven 

 are complete. In length they range from 81 to 158 mm. ; in diameter, 

 from 20 to 32 mm., depending in part on the original size of the antler. 

 None shows nicks or scars such as might have resulted from flint knap- 

 ping, nor is any one socketed at the end. They are of a size convenient 

 for grasping firmly in the hand ; and since the most evidence of wear 

 invariably is at one end, the most plausible view as to function would 

 seem to be that they were rubbing tools (cf. Kidder, 1932, p. 276 and 

 fig. 231). 



