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from light buff at the bottom to dark gray; the paste is dark gray 

 with small angular white inclusions of siliceous matter sparingly 

 present. The rim exterior is crisscrossed with fine incisions, below 

 which is a zone of small punch marks each deepest at the left end as 

 though applied obliquely from the right. The neck, imperfectly 

 polished, is 25-35 mm. wide, bordered at the lower edge by an incised 

 line. Body decoration consists of three bands of fine smooth edentate 

 rocker impressions encircling the vessel. The base is plain and 

 smooth. 



The second vessel (pi. 37, c) stands 13.3 cm. high, with a maximum 

 body diameter of 13.8 cm. The body is rounded vertically but in 

 horizontal cross section presents a squarish outline with rounded 

 corners (Wedel, 1938, pi. 8, B). Color, paste, and inclusions resemble 

 those in the smaller pot. The lip is flat with an inward bevel, and 

 the channeled rim has incised cross-hatching with a bordering lower 

 row of shallow flat punch marks. The neck is plain and imperfectly 

 polished, and on the squared sides the undecorated zone extends down 

 to the base. Each of the rounded corners or lobes is marked off by a 

 shallow incised line within which the bulging surface has been 

 covered with four short bands of edentate rocker impressions. The 

 impressions in these four separate imits are less carefully done than 

 those on the first pot. As already implied, the base is smooth. 



There is no reason to doubt that these vessels were found in the 

 mound, as stated, but whether they were intrusive or inclusive is a 

 question no longer susceptible to direct proof. They differ in all par- 

 ticulars from the five specimens found, probably intrusively, in Nolan 

 C, but in form they recall the smallest pot which I regard as inclusive 

 in that mound (cf. pi. 36, a, and 37, h, c). Deferring for the present 

 a discussion of their possible significance in terms of archeological 

 correlations, we need merely note here that they vary in minor 

 respects only from the best grade of ware represented at the Renner 

 site (cf. pi. 8, a). 



Other remains on Pearl Brmwh. — Aside from the mounds that we 

 investigated a few other remains in the valley and immediate vicinity 

 of Pearl Branch may be noted. Somewhat to our surprise, surface 

 hunting disclosed few evidences of extended habitation by a people or 

 l^eoples to whom could be ascribed the bones and artifacts taken from 

 the hilltop tombs. As alread}'' indicated, habitable well-drained and 

 flood-free flats of sufficient size to accommodate more than two or 

 three lodges are lacking along the creek, and the valley slopes seem 

 generally too steep to have been so utilized. Still, there is a pos- 

 sibility that some of the spots now occupied by residences, farm 

 buildings, and small gardens were once lived on by aboriginal man 

 whose traces have since been obliterated. At least one spring and 



