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and 38, absent in 2, 4 and 5); and cord-marked surface finish (absent 
in 3, 4 and 5). 
5. Three attributes—incurved rim form, collared rim form, and den- 
tate stamped decoration—appear to be present only in 1; and one attri- 
bute—inset beads or impressions thereof—seemingly occurs only in 4. 
b. Sharing of attributes: 
The Hintz ceramic complex (1) shares 13 attributes with the Painted 
Woods complex (2); 12 attributes with the Old Fort Abraham Lincoln 
village complex (3)—with two of these attributes rare in both com- 
plexes and three rare in the latter; 12 attributes with the Sheyenne- 
Cheyenne complex (4)—with one of these attributes rare in the Hintz 
complex and two rare in the Sheyenne-Cheyenne complex; and eight 
attributes with the Buffalo Pasture complex (5)—with one of these 
attributes rare in the latter. 
In terms of the number of shared attributes, the Hintz ceramic com- 
plex (1) is least like the Buffalo Pasture complex (5) and most like 
the Painted Woods complex (2). Furthermore, two attributes present 
in (1) and (2)—check stamped decoration and cord-marked surface 
finish—are not reported from (8), (4), and (5); they appear to set 
off clearly the former two complexes from the latter three. 
The numerous analogies between the Hintz and Painted Woods 
ceramic complexes indicate, I believe, that the former is intimately 
related to the latter, and that the authors of the Painted Woods ce- 
ramic complex, tentatively identified as the Hidatsa, may also have 
been responsible for the Hintz ceramic complex. 
UTILIZED POTTERY SHERDS 
Two utilized pottery sherds are present in the Hintz collection. 
One, subcircular in outline, is 31 mm. in maximum diameter and 4.5 
mm. in maximum thickness. Derived from a grit-tempered, un- 
slipped, dark-gray, smoothed body sherd, the object is roughly 
trimmed around the periphery. The interior surface bears several 
shallow striations which tend to radiate from an approximate center. 
The other specimen, subrectangular in outline, is 33 mm. in maxi- 
mum length, 25 mm. in maximum breadth, and 6.75 mm. in maximum 
thickness. Based on a grit-tempered, unslipped, dark-gray, cord- 
marked sherd, this object is roughly trimmed on three sides and 
smoothed along most of the fourth side and around one corner. The 
interior surface bears numerous shallow striations, directed at random. 
Both objects may have been used in a game, possibly the hand 
game. 
STONE OBJECTS 
Some 367 whole or broken chipped, battered, abraded, and polished 
stone objects were obtained from the surface and the excavations at 
