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burials, and at a later date primary interments ascribed to the Omaha, 

 were intruded into it. 



GROUP B 



These are five undecorated rim sherds, four of which fit together. 

 All five apparently belong to a single vessel (pi. 50, d). The rim 

 section is about 9 mm. thick and has a rounded lip. The mterior 

 surface is black and smooth. The exterior, ranging from tan to 

 dark gray, is covered with large (3 per centimeter), parallel, cord- 

 paddled impressions extending diagonally downward from the lip. 

 The sherds are tempered with minute particles of calcite and occasional 

 large and small grit inclusions. They were recovered from the 2.0-2.5 

 foot level in square N135W40. The specimens bear a general re- 

 semblance to several varieties of Plains Woodland vessels that are 

 almost shoulderless and have conoidal bases. Calcite tempering is 

 a characteristic of Harlan Cord-Roughened, the diagnostic pottery 

 of the Keith Focus (Kivett, 1953). Two sites within this focus have 

 been dated by radiocarbon methods. The Woodruff Ossuary in north- 

 central Kansas (Kivett, 1953) was dated at A.D. 611±240 years 

 (Wedel and Kivett, 1956), and site 25FT18 in south-central Nebraska 

 was dated at A.D. 828±200 years (Crane and Griffin, 1960, p. 40). 

 The Valley Cord-Roughened is characteristic of the Valley Focus (Hill 

 and Kivett, 1941), the type site being 25VY1 in central Nebraska 

 (Kivett, 1949). A dendrochronological estimate of A.D. 1000 to 

 1150 was assigned to a Valley Focus occupation at Ash Hollow Cave 

 in southwest Nebraska (Champe, 1946, p. 86). The trait that allies 

 the Group B specimens from the Good Soldier site to Valley Cord- 

 Roughened is the diagonal orientation of the cord impressions on the 

 vessel exterior. 



GROUP c 



Only one large rim and shoulder section of a vessel is represented 

 here (pi. 50, a). The rim is vertical with a very faint outward bulge 

 between the neck and the lip. A very weak shoulder is evident below 

 the neck. The lip is flat and slants downward toward the vessel 

 exterior. Rim height, measured between the neck and lip top, is 34 

 mm. and the thickness is 6 mm. The specimen is abundantly tem- 

 pered with grit particles ranging up to 2.0 mm. in size. The interior 

 surface is a brownish-orange and smooth. The exterior is the same 

 color, but it is covered with extremely fine, parallel, cord-paddled 

 impressions that extend vertically down from the lip. The rim is 

 decorated with parallel, notched-stick indentations that extend from 

 the lip top diagonally downward onto the rim exterior. The indenta- 

 tions are about 13 mm. in length and V-shaped in cross section. The 

 notches run perpendicular to, and average about six per indentation. 

 The rim was recovered at a depth of 2.0 feet in square N145W50. Al- 



