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percent of the rims ; together with Group 2, these groups make up 70.7 

 percent of the site sample. 



A number of the minority types at Demery, included in the remain- 

 ing 29.3 percent of the rim groups, are comparable to minority types 

 in Chouteau Aspect sites. The Demery Group 3 rims, for example, 

 resemble the type lona Diagonal-Incised Rim from the Spain site, al- 

 though the Demery specimens lack the rim protrusion typical of lona 

 Ware. Again, the Group 5 rims resemble in a general way some of the 

 Campbell Creek types as defined at the Talking Crow site (Smith, 

 1951, pp. 37-39). Groups 8 and 9 resemble some of the pottery from 

 Arzberger (Spaulding, 1956, pp. 139-141), and the types Wheeler 

 Horizontal-Incised and Wlieeler Incised-Triangle from the Scalp 

 Creek site (Hurt, 1952, pp. 75-76). In none of these instances do 

 the groups from Demery and the types from the other sites approach 

 identity. These correspondences, together with the presence of the 

 type Talking Crow Straight Rim, are, however, indicative of the cul- 

 tural affiliation of Demery with certain of the South Dakota sites and 

 foci. 



OTHER ARTIFACTS 



The bone artifacts at Demery are abundant and of good quality. 

 Scapula hoes are common, and except for the removal of the spine 

 and the posterior border, the implements were modified only by the 

 preparation of the broad end for use as a hoe. Other scapula tools 

 include knives made from the thin bone from the scapula center and 

 which resemble the historic "squash knives." A cleaverlike imple- 

 ment is more distinctive, although its function is unknown : it may 

 have been used as a Imife. This latter tool is also known from Arz- 

 berger (Spaulding, 1956, p. 49, pi. 4, 0). The bison radius picks 

 from Demery resemble those from the Dodd site (Lehmer, 1954, p. 65, 

 fig. 30, g) in having a hole through the articulating surface. They 

 differ from those at the Paul Brave site (Wood and Woolworth, 1964, 

 p. 38) and the Thomas Riggs site (Hurt, 1953, p. 34) since the picks 

 from the latter two sites are longitudinally split. 



The 79 bone awls from Demery are, for the most part, forms which 

 are conmion to most sites in the Middle Missouri area. The principal 

 exception is the class commonly termed "rib-edge" awls, but which 

 appear to be made from the neural spine of bison vertebrae (Wedel, 

 1955, pp. 119-120), rather than from rib edges, as originally suggested 

 by Kidder (1932). These implements, sometimes also called pins or 

 flakers, are lacking at Paul Brave, Thomas Riggs, and Huff, and as 

 far as present evidence is concerned they appear to be lacking also in 

 historic Mandan and Hidatsa sites. Wedel, however, reports them 

 from sites of probable Arikara origin in the vicinity of Mobridge, 

 S. Dak. (1955, pp. 119-120), and Lehmer illustrates them from 



