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bit of pitch pressed in the hole would have made a good base to hold 
the material for making a bead during the drilling of it. 
The objects marked B in the same plate were for shaping pottery. 
At present the women in the pueblos use similar things made of the 
rind of the calabash, and this gives us an index to the use of these 
pieces of pottery. 
MOLDIES OR MOLDS 
There are four excellent examples of what are known as moldies, 
or molds, for beginning the bottom of the larger pots. (PI. 45, 0, FE.) 
Fig. 33.—Birds, life forms. 
The use of the mold to start the pot may have been a survival of the 
time when pottery was made in a basket. There were only a few 
pot bottoms at Po-shu which showed the use of a mold. Almost all 
of them were made without it. 
