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of the broken edge. This, inferentially, is where the vertical wall of 

 the bowl originally turned outward to form the disk. The curved 

 edge is about 7 mm. thick; the maximum width of the segment is 11 

 mm.; and the arc, projected, produces a circle about 55-60 mm. in 

 diameter. All these measurements fall close to the proportions 

 exhibited by the pipe illustrated, which, it should be noted, comes 

 from another site. 



Since conclusion of our investigations Mr. Shippee reports discovery 

 of a pipe of another type. This was found on the surface about 200 

 feet north of house 1, on a slope below traces of what may have been 

 another earthlodge site. This pipe consists of a giay sandstone block, 

 rectangular in shape, and measuring 46 mm. in length, 32 mm. in 

 width, and 28 mm. in thickness. The bowl, a narrow conical hole ca. 

 13 mm. in diameter at the top, was bored lengthwise into the block 

 to a depth of about 23 mm., where it intersects at right angles a shorter 

 tapering hole entering from the side. The latter was in all likelihood 

 fitted with a stem of some perishable material. 



A subcircular broken pendant of fine-grained light-red sandstone 

 (pi. 26, n) was found in the rubbish above the floor of house 1. The 

 surfaces are finely striated and, while moderately smooth, were never 

 polished. At one side is a projection 8 mm. wide and about 10 mm. 

 long, which has been broken off across a small perforation. The 

 object, 3.5 mm. thick, measures 54 by 48 mm. in diameter. 



Sandstone abraders in fragmentary condition occurred plentifully 

 everywhere in our diggings. From house 1, for example, came no 

 fewer than 50 pieces showing indubitable grinding facets or grooves. 

 The pits and midden gave up many additional examples. Ten of those 

 from the house (pi. 30, «, c) and a number of others from the site 

 are probably reused portions of long boat -shaped shaft-smoothers of 

 the paired type commonly found throughout the Great Plains. Most 

 have two or more grooved surfaces, and the grooves are usually too 

 narrow and sharp to admit an ordinary arrowshaft. They were prob- 

 ably used in the fashioning of needles, awls, or similar slender-pointed 

 objects. I am of the opinion that the paired type of buffing tool was 

 probably known at the site, though it seems curious that only reworked 

 scraps came to our attention. Much more numerous are other blocks 

 and slabs of sandstone, wliich, lacking a regular form, show a flat 

 worn surface or a broad shallow concavity, as if larger objects, perhaps 

 of stone, had been rubbed over them. 



The thin sandstone tablet shown in plate 30, d, if not used as an 

 abrader, cannot be identified as to function. It has a square corner 

 and two straight sides but is obviously broken and incomplete on the 

 other margins. A narrow slightly raised border, ca. 8 mm. wide, 

 extends along the two straight edges. The surface generally is cov- 

 ered with shallow grooves alternating with low narrow ridges, run- 



