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convex ;  the  front,  with  six  deeply  cut,  parallel  oblique  grooves,  has 
just  enough  of  a  concavity  to  fit  the  sides  of  a  large  rounded  vessel. 
A  large  sherd,  picked  up  from  the  surface  at  the  northwestern  sec- 
tion of  Miyowagh,  was  decorated  with  a  typical  "  check-stamp  "  pat- 
tern (text  fig.  17).  The  indented  squares  were  rather  deeply  im- 
printed and  of  uniform  size,  measuring  about  6  mm  across. 
Fig.   17. — Potsherd  with   check-stamp  decoration,    Miyowagh. 
In  plate  58,  figure  14,  is  shown  the  only  example  of  a  molded  decora- 
tion; this  is  a  small  human  figure  applied  to  the  inner  rim  of  a  thick- 
walled  vessel,  apparently  a  lamp. 
Baleen  and  Wooden  Vessels 
Parts  of  baleen  vessels — the  round  or  oval  wooden  bottoms  and  the 
flattened  sides  of  baleen — were  found  in  considerable  numbers  at  Mi- 
yowagh. Four  were  found  at  the  Hillside  site,  one  of  them  the  well- 
preserved  specimen  shown  in  plate  53  found  together  with  three 
others  in  what  appeared  to  have  been  a  small  storage  space  beneath  the 
rear  floor  stones  of  house  no.  2  at  the  Hillside  site.  It  is  straight-sided, 
8.5  cm  high,  with  an  oval  wooden  bottom  9.4  and  10.7  cm  in  diameter. 
The  upper  part  of  the  vessel  is  formed  of  a  piece  of  baleen  bent  around 
and  held  together  by  an  in-and-out  stitching  of  baleen.    The  wooden 
