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function and purpose are unknown. One adomo is definitely in the 

 shape of a snake's head showing both eyes and mouth (pis. 59, o ; 60, c) ; 

 another is some sort of mammalian form (pi. 60, 5), in which the nos- 

 trils are indicated as well as the eyes and mouth; another is an at- 

 tempt to depict a human form and is decorated with a geometric 

 incised design (pis. 59, q\ 60, a). All were made of a finely divided 

 untempered paste, evenly fired, and were of a rich buff color. With 

 the exception of the human form, all are un decorated. 



Pottery disks. — Sherd disks occur in sufficient numbers at this site 

 to be worth noticing. None are carefully shaped or completely per- 

 forated at the center, but a number bear shallow, cone-shaped depres- 

 sions, centrally located on both faces. Their true function is unlmown 

 but it has been conjectured that these forms served as game counters 

 or some such function. The method of manufacture is well illus- 

 trated in plate 61. A number are circular in outline, others are squar- 

 ish with rounded corners, while still others appear to have been 

 "chipped" into rough circles. Wliether these represent various stages 

 in the manufacture of completed disks is unknown. Pottery disks 

 have been reported from both Iroquoian and Fort Ancient sites. They 

 are much more common in the latter, especially in sites along the Ohio 

 Eiver. Parker (1922, p. 139) illustrates a number which were found 

 in Jefferson County, N.Y. 



Pipes. — Typical Woodland clay pipes are fairly well represented 

 in the collection from this particular site. Plate 62, 5, shows a prob- 

 able developmental series in which the earliest pipe form is a. straight 

 tube, somewhat crudely shaped, terminating with a small, shallow 

 depression at the broader end. It is bent ever so slightly away from 

 the straight axial line. In this phase, stems are short and the comiect- 

 ing passage is slightly off center. During the developmental stages 

 the bowl becomes not only larger but deeper, the elbow features grow 

 more pronounced, and the whole culminates in the form and shape 

 taken on by the steatite example illustrated in the series (pi. 62). 



A number of effigy pipes fashioned from clay or stone were re- 

 covered from the soil that had been removed from the site and dumped 

 on the nearby golf course. One clay pipe in particular, whose outline 

 is in the form of a modified wedge, has a blunted and rounded apex 

 and a beveled basal edge, giving the object an axlike appearance. It 

 could easily be taken for an ax but for the presence near the butt end 

 of two opposing bulbous protrusions, which give the impression that 

 they were intended to represent the eyes of some creature rather than 

 a form of decoration. It is thought that it was intended to represent 

 a "catfish," since the whole is in keeping with the shape of a catfish's 

 head (pi. 63). 



