Riv. BAs. Sour. 
Pav. NO. 27] STAR VILLAGE—METCALF 113 
13, 2), the other 8.2 cm. long (pl. 18, 4). Most of the specimens are 
more or less bent but two show no evidence of having been used. 
One specimen of a hand-made or “wrought” nail was found. The 
point of this object has been broken off, and most of the head is 
missing. It measures 8.3 cm. long in its broken state and is 4 mm. in 
thickness near the broken end (pl. 13, 7.). 
The last specimen is of the type known as a bridge spike (pl. 13, 7). 
The head is hexagonal, 1.75 cm. in diameter and 6 mm. thick. The 
shaft is 8 mm. square to a point about 1.0 cm. from the tip, after 
which two sides are beveled to form an edge. It is 14.4 cm. in length, 
has been used, and is slightly bent. The presence of such an object 
in an Indian village on the upper Missouri River in 1862 is rather 
surprising. They were used to fasten planks to heavy timbers and to 
secure large hinges and hasps. They may have been in common use 
on the steamboats of the period or have been used about the trading 
posts. Although none were found during the course of excavations 
on the site of the second Fort Berthold in 1952, they are not uncom- 
mon in collections made by Missouri Project archeologists during the 
excavation of trading-post and army sites dating from the late 1860’s. 
Miscellaneous metal objects—An iron band or collar came from 
Feature 8. This object, which is made from a strip of sheet iron 2 
mm. thick and from 3.0 to 3.2 cm. wide, is in the form of a hoop, the 
two ends overlapping and being fastened with two iron rivets. Two 
holes near one edge but on opposite sides of the hoop still retain the 
ends of a long rivet or, more probably, since the metal of the hoop has 
in each case been driven inward during the piercing process, of two 
rivets or small nails. The hoop tapers slightly, measuring 6.8 cm. in 
diameter on one side, 6.5 em. across the other. The rivets which 
fastened it to its original seat are nearest to the wider side, and the 
edges of the other side are somewhat battered. I have no idea of 
its original function except that it suggests a ferrule used to protect 
the end of some wooden object (pl. 13, ce). 
A piece of sheet iron from the floor of Feature 12 was made by 
removing the bottom of a pot or bucket, after which the resulting 
band was cut and flattened. The material is heavy, measuring about 
1 mm. in thickness. The object in its present condition is about 28.8 
em. wide and 62.5 cm. long. One edge appears to have been rolled 
over a rod approximately 0.5 cm. in diameter. Part of one bail ear 
is still attached and is fastened with three rivets over the seam where 
the ends of the original strip were crimped together. This ear is oval 
im outline and appears to have once terminated in a hook, now broken 
away. The size of this sheet of metal suggests that in its original 
form it was of about 12 quarts capacity. 
A bucket bottom from Feature 8 comes from a much larger vessel, 
being about 30.0 cm. in diameter. It has been patched in two places 
