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was smoothed, obliterating any trace of the basket impression, but 

 the area immediately above still retained the impressions of the basket 

 container. This piece indicates two facts : (1) that two methods were 

 used in the manufacture of clay vessels — molding and coiling, and 

 (2) that coiled basketry was not only manufactured and used as con- 

 tainers but as the foundation in which clay vessels were started. 



Obtuse- angled clay pipes were in use (pi. 93, /) by the people who 

 lived on Grassy Creek. In making pipes of this type they resorted to 

 a very homogeneous clay which apparently was chosen with more care 

 than that given to the clay out of which they fashioned their clay 

 vessels. 



What may have been the remains of a smoking tube (pi. 94, h, h') 

 was fashioned from the same type of clay that was used in the manu- 

 facture of their clay vessels. It is crudely shaped with very thick walls 

 and the pef orating tube is rather large in diameter. Sand particles are 

 large and prominent. Only the basal portion of this tubular pipe was 

 recovered. 



Two unusual clay objects (pi. 93, g and h) were recovered. One, A, 

 appears to be some sort of handle, probably from a miniature toy ves- 

 sel, the other, ^, is a small object, round in cross section, fired to a tan 

 color, and is heavily tempered with sand, some of which shows on the 

 exterior. What purpose such an object could have served is 

 problematical. 



CHIPPED STONE 



A number of chert chips and a number of microlithic artifacts, 

 which were fasioned from chert chips, were found scattered in the 

 sand and gravel layer at the base of the erosional ditch. Upon ex- 

 amination, these proved to be well-defined microlithic artifacts, which 

 are illustrated in plate 95, a-/, as well as in plate 96, in and n. Some 

 are in the form of delicate scrapers, / ; others are types of burins, h ; 

 still others appeared to be gravers of the style associated with 

 Paleo-American remains, c-e; and one has been carefully chipped 

 with rather delicate chips along one side, while the end and opposite 

 side present a splendid cutting tool, a. 



Associated with these microlithic artifacts and chert chips were two 

 very small isosceles triangular points, illustrated in plate 96, m and 

 n. These were the only two projectile points found at this level of the 

 sand-gravel deposit. 



Among those found higher in the midden material were tw^o typical 

 Woodland projectile points. One is roughly pentagonal in outline 

 (pi. 90, Z), the base is slightly concave, and the adjoining sides flare 

 but slightly and then sharply constrict, terminating in a blunt point 

 or tip. This particular point was fashioned from a large thin chert 

 chip, one side of which sliows very little chipping while the side 



