106 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Buu 185 
(ibid., p. 48). If this ware is correctly identified as Arikara, these 
four sherds, slightly over 1 percent of the total, are all that were found 
to represent the ceramic tradition of that tribe at this site. 
That the Arikara were still using pottery during their occupation of 
the site is evidenced by a statement of Lewis Henry Morgan who 
visited them while they were building Star Village. Morgan’s 
description of the pottery leaves much to be desired. He describes 
it as dark in color and says “I saw them use earthen pots to draw water 
from the river. One of these, which would hold about six quarts, 
with a string adjusted about the neck, was let down into the Missouri, 
filled and then carried to the lodge. It was of the usual shape of 
earthen pots or water jars, slightly contracted at the neck and 
bordered with a rim, around which the string was secured” (Morgan, 
1871, p.40). 
WORKED STONE 
Most of the smaller stone objects from this site are made from the 
so-called “Knife River flint,” a variety of dark-brown chalcedony 
which is abundant throughout the area. The Crowley flint quarries, 
located some miles southwest of the town of Beulah, N. Dak., are a 
well known source of the material, but it is also present as slabs and 
nodules in gravel exposures and in the bottoms of the deeper coulees. 
A characteristic of this material is its tendency to change color upon 
exposure, the caramel brown of the freshly broken surfaces eventually 
changing to a mottled, milky blue. Little is known regarding the 
length of time which must elapse before this color change becomes 
apparent, but an artifact from the excavations at Rock Village 
(32ME15) gives some data. This object, the faces of which are deeply 
patinated, has been reworked, exposing the natural color of the stone 
along the edges. These edges show no sign of patination although the 
object comes from a site which is provisionally dated 1825-1840, 
(Hartle, MS.), and the reworking must, therefore, have occurred 
over a century ago. 
Projectile point.—The one stone projectile point found at the site 
came from Feature 1. Fashioned from Knife River flint, it belongs to 
Strong’s NAal type (Strong, 1935, p. 88 and fig. 7), being triangular 
in outline, with a straight base and side notches. It measures 3.5 cm. 
in length, 1.7 cm. in width at the base, 4 mm. in thickness, and weighs 
1.3 grams. The workmanship is excellent, the chipping is well con- 
trolled and the retouching is fine and delicate (pl. 12,0). Both faces 
are markedly patinated, and the object probably antedates the village. 
Blades —Three fragmentary bifacially flaked objects have been 
placed in this category. All were found at Feature 1, at the extreme 
northwest corner of the terrace. The largest and most nearly com- 
plete specimen is of Knife River flint and markedly patinated (pl. 18, 
6). Both ends are damaged but it appears to have been leaf-shaped 
