MYER] GORDON TOWN SITE 585 
found in the Noel Indian cemetery about 4 miles north of the Gordon 
site. 
Figure 149 shows a restoration of a fine red undecorated bowl from 
circle No. 3. Both its exterior and interior are similar to Plate 106, f. 
It is hard-burned, but not as highly polished as the decorated bowls 
to which we have just referred. 
OTHER OBJECTS 
Some of the other artifacts found in circle 23 are shown in Plate 
113, b. Among these are a rude discoidal, 114 inches in diameter, 
three arrowheads, an hourglass-shaped bead of black pottery, and 
a grooved whetstone of fine-grained sandstone. 
HOUSE CIRCLE NO. 79 
A family of the plain common people lived in house circle No. 79, 
in the northeastern section of the town. A diagram of this typical 
Fic. 149.—Undecorated bow] from circle No. 3 
house of the ordinary man of the ancient Gordon town is shown in 
Figure 150. 
The low earthen rim of this house circle denotes walls not so thick 
as some of the more important buildings. There was no elaborate 
fire bowl in the center. The fire had been built on the floor of the 
wigwam. ‘There was no evidence denoting especial importance any- 
where in the building. 
Not far from the open fire in the center were the charred remains 
of an ancient wooden metate, an ancient grinding stone, and some 
other stones for domestic purposes. In the floor of the wigwam, to 
the west of the central fire bed, was the stone slab covering of the 
grave of three children. 
Tur MeETAtTE 
About 18 inches south of the edge of the central fire bed were 
found the metate (A) and the other two stones (B and () shown in 
Plate 114,a. The metate is 14 by 11 inches and about 3 inches in 
thickness. It sloped at an angle of about 25 degrees. It is now in the 
National Museum. The other two stones were 8 by 10 inches and 16 
by 10 inches, respectively. These last two were rough unworked 
stones, and were probably for some unknown domestic use. Similar 
arrangements of three stones were probably in many of the other 
dwellings. (See smaller ones resembling these, in circle No. 23, shown 
53666°—28——35 
