100 BULLETIN 183, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



In bone and antler there are socketed conical projectile points, 

 cylindrical rubbing tools, and fiakers. Bone beaming tools of two- 

 handed type include both split metapodials and the innominate bones 

 of the deer. Punches of deer ulna and smaller awls are present, 

 though I am not certain whether eyeleted needles occur. Two incom- 

 plete turtle carapaces had evidently been worked into bowls or dippers. 



As at the Renner site, there are crude clay figurines, including 

 effigies of birds and one suggesting a human bust. A very small 

 nipplelike piece of clay recalls the larger and better made clay and 

 limestone cones at Line Creek. Noteworthy because of its apparent 

 uniqueness in collections from this locality is the broken bit from an 

 unfinished clay pipe. Slightly curving along the longer axis, it is 

 planoconvex to elliptical in cross section. The finished end, 2 cm. 

 wide by 0.6 cm. thick, has a shallow round hole evidently the start of 

 a stem perforation ; the broken end is 1.4 by 3 cm. Surfaces are well 

 smoothed, and the piece is quite hard. There is no clue to the bowl 

 or to the length of the original pipe blank, but the bit fragment 

 resembles so closely the same part in the familiar monitor or platform 

 pipe, and its clay variant at Marksville, La., as to leave scant doubt 

 that it is correctly identified. 



Equal or greater interest attaches to the specimen figured in plate 

 20, d. Shaped much like the head and upper end of an ordinary 

 straight pin, it has been fashioned out of deerhorn from a spike buck. 

 The base of the horn, where the "burr" normally occurs, has been 

 ground off about the edges and is convex in profile. Above the base 

 the specimen contracts rapidly in size, tapering out to a round stem 

 carved from the shaft of the horn and broken at the end. The head 

 of the "pin" is slightly elliptical, 24 by 22 mm. across ; the periphery, 

 thin and sharpish, has 19 small, unevenly spaced, V-shaped notches. 

 At the broken end the stem is 6 mm. in diameter, and the overall 

 length of the object is about 3.5 cm. The stem is not attached at 

 the center of the head, nor does it rise at a right angle with the plane 

 of the notched edge, because of the direction followed by the growing 

 horn. All the surfaces have been smoothed down, and the notched 

 edge is well worn. 



In a short paper previously published, it was suggested, on the 

 basis of laboratory experiments, that this bone instrument was a 

 roulette used for marking pottery (Wedel and Trowbridge, 1940). 

 The notched head, when rolled in plastic clay, leaves a V-shaped line 

 interrupted by low transverse ridges from 11/2-3 mm. apart. Owing 

 to its eccentric placement on the handle, moreover, the head rolls 

 most easily in an arc 25-35 mm. long. By rolling or rocking the object 

 back and forth continuously, each time at a slightly different angle, 

 a band of "dentate rocker" impressions is produced that duplicates the 



