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State Historical Society of North Dakota Museum indicates that Paul 

 Brave resembles these sites in most particulars. 



The pottery from Paul Brave is remarkably uniform with respect 

 to paste, surface finish, and form. Briefly, the pottery was probably 

 made by means of lump modeling, with the use of a grooved paddle 

 and an anvil. The use of a cord-wrapped paddle was less common. 

 Decomposed or calcined granite was added as temper, and the pottery 

 was fired to a hardness of 3.0 to 3.5, with a resulting color that ranged 

 from light buff through black. The upper parts of most vessels were 

 horizontally smoothed. Although some shoulders were vertically 

 simple-stamped, the marks are usually obliterated. Incised decora- 

 tions were applied to a smoothed shoulder area. Both decorated and 

 undecorated rims were smoothed. The bases of the vessels were 

 simple-stamped in a random fashion. A few vessels were polished. 

 Vessels were globular, with rounded bases, and wide, apparently round 

 mouths. Loop handles and a few strap handles were attached to rims. 

 There are two rim forms. One of these is straight and vertical, with 

 many rims outflaring. Vessels bearing such rims are herein termed the 

 "Riggs Ware." The other rim form is S-shaped, and the vessels with 

 this character are herein termed "Fort Yates Ware." The general 

 characteristics of the Paul Brave pottery already enumerated apply 

 for the most part to that from Thomas Riggs. Differences in the pot- 

 tery from the two sites are found only when more detailed compari- 

 sons are made. 



The rim sherd samples from both sites are nearly the same: 863 

 rims at Thomas Riggs, and 886 rims at Paul Brave. The body sherd 

 sample from Thomas Riggs is more than six times that from Paul 

 Brave. The smaller sample from Paul Brave probably resulted from 

 our practice of retaining only those sherds the size of a half-dollar or 

 larger. Despite these quantitative differences, the percentages of 

 types of body treatment at both sites are remarkably close. There is 

 little more than a 5 percent difference between the two major groups 

 of body sherds from the two sites. Cord-roughened body sherds are 

 rare at both sites. The paste of the cord-roughened sherds at Paul 

 Brave is identical with that of other body sherds, a circumstance that 

 suggests that the sherds are indigenous. The rare check-stamped 

 sherds at Paul Brave are not paralleled at Thomas Riggs, whereas 

 the painted pottery at Thomas Riggs is absent at Paul Brave. 



The percentage of decorated shoulder sherds from both sites is 

 nearly the same. The range of designs on Paul Brave pottery is lim- 

 ited (figs. 1, 2), and most of them occur on pottery at Thomas Riggs 

 (Hurt, 1953, figs. 27-28, 30-31) . The most popular patterns are com- 

 posed of alternating elements of nested chevrons and triangular "ani- 

 mal tracks." Most of the designs are incised or trailed, but one ex- 



