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suspended at the insistence of the owner of the site, who feared that 

 his machinery might become mired in the pits during farming opera- 

 tions. It appeared, however, that at this depth the occupation layer 

 had already been passed, as no artifacts had been recoved below a depth 

 of 0.5 foot in either pit. Potsherds and flint chips were recovered 

 in both pits to a depth of 0.5 foot from the surface. 



SPECIMEN DESCRIPTIONS 



Rim sherds. — Three rim sherds were recovered, all apparently from 

 vessels of a cord-marked Aksarben type. The first bears vertical, 

 cord-marked lines on the outer surface and has a rounded lip. The 

 width of the lower rim is much greater than that at the lip, indicating 

 that the fragment was once part of a collared rim (pi. 51, m). The 

 second rim is also cord marked on the outer surface, but the cord marks 

 have been wiped away for a distance of 10 mm. below the top of the 

 lip. The lip is rounded and the rim is straight or very slightly in- 

 sloping (pi. 51, o). The third rim sherd is similar to the second in 

 most respects, but seems to have come from a much smaller vessel (pi. 

 51, n) . In color the sherds grade from buff to gray. The tempering is 

 coarse grit. Lip thickness on all three sherds is 5 mm. ; the lower rim 

 thickness is 9 mm. on the first rim and 5 mm. on the other two. 



Body sherds. — All of the 114 body sherds recovered represent pot- 

 tery of the Aksarben Complex. Eighty-four of these show cord mark- 

 ing on the outer surface, twenty-three are smooth, and seven are in- 

 determinate (i.e, split or badly weathered sherds). In color they 

 range from buff through gray to black. Tempering is coarse grit. 

 Thickness ranges from 4 to 12 mm. 



Looj) handle. — A single pottery loop handle was recovered by Jolin- 

 son's party from just north of the main concentration area of the site 

 (pi. 51, p). The handle had been fastened to the vessel by drilling 

 holes in the vessel wall, inserting tabs of clay from the handle, and 

 welding the tabs to the inside of the vessel. The smoothed exterior 

 bears a bright red-orange slip, the interior is gray. Coarse grit is 

 the tempering material. The diameter of the handle is 14 mm. 



This fragment has been assigned to the Geneseo Red Filmed type 

 (Wedel, 1949, p. 89). In Rice County, in central Kansas, Wedel 

 found sherds of this type associated with Rio Grande Glaze Paint 

 sherds (ca. A.D. 1525 to 1650), and small amounts of European and 

 Southwestern trade goods. Pottery of the Geneseo Red Filmed type 

 is one of the diagnostic traits of the Great Bend Aspect or Paint Creek 

 Culture, which Wedel has tentatively identified with the late prehis- 

 toric and early historic "Wichita (Wedel, 1942, p. 10) . 



Projectile points. — Twenty projectile points that were sufficiently 

 complete for classification were recovered. These have been grouped 



