MYER] GORDON TOWN SITE 525 
this slip had then been stained black, probably after the manner 
shown in Figure 134. Another was 12 inches in diameter, exterior 
and interior warm gray (pl. 106, db). 
Figure 139° represents a vessel 8 inches in diameter at the rim. 
It is very hard burned, and contains an unusual amount of ground 
Fic. 138.—Restoration of vessel from interior of circle No. 3 
mussel shell material. Both exterior and interior are gray (pl. 106, 5). 
This vessel would have stood nearly as much hard usage as the modern 
white man’s pottery. 
Figure 140 shows a restoration of a large oval-bottom vessel, to 
which has been given a probable diameter of only 28 inches, although 
the curve of the rim fragment indicates a diameter of about 32 inches. 
Fic. 139.—Restoration of vessel from interior of circle No. 3 
The wall of this vessel is only three-eighths of an inch and the rim 
one-half inch in thickness. It was probably 10 inches in depth. 
This vessel was made of fairly well burned clay, mingled with pow- 
dered mussel shell. Its exterior and interior have a thin, smooth 
coating of fine buff-colored clay, closely resembling Plate 106, h. 
This vessel very closely resembles four large salt boiling vessels 
discovered at a salt spring near the village of Kimmswick, Jefferson 
County, Missouri, by Mr. David I. Bushnell, jr. One of these 
