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mottling in some of the specimens is especially fine. The steatite 
bowls, in distinction to the globular and small-mouthed ollas or 
cooking pots, are described below. 
Bowl of gray steatite, built up of eight or more fragments found in scat- 
tered position; 174.6 mm. diameter, 98.4 mm. high; orifice 155.5 mm. diameter. 
Rim squared and 6.8 mm. wide. Concavity 80.9 mm. deep. Bottom rounded. 
Some of the fragments show traces of soot. 
Bowl of black steatite, 165.1 mm. diameter, 76.2 mm. high; orifice 147.6 mm. 
diameter. Rim squared, 11.1 mm. wide, a groove running around the bowl 
4.7 mm. below the rim. Conecavity 69.8 mm, deep. The bottom is rounding 
and is ornamented by a double-lined cross pricked into its surface. The dots 
are some of them 3.1 mm. diameter, and the lines are approximately 25.4 mm. 
apart. The bowl is somewhat blackened with soot. 
Bowl of black steatite with beautiful crinkly veins of gray color; found 
in widely scattered fragments; 301.6 mm. diameter, 133.8 mm. high. The rim 
is nicely squared and is 15.8 mm. diameter. Both inside and outside surfaces 
are beveled, beginning 6.3 mm. from the rim. The concavity is 120.6 mm. diam- 
eter. The bottom is rounded. The bowl evidently broke in two and was 
mended by the Indians, as is indicated by the four pairs of holes which were 
drilled along the crack or break, for the purpose of lashing the halves together. 
These holes are about 20.6 mm. diameter and average about 25.4 mm. apart; 
that is, they are drilled about 12.7 distant from the fracture. (PI. 10, ¢.) 
Bowl of blackish gray steatite. This bowl and the two next to be described 
below were found nested together; 104.7 mm. diameter, 79.3 mm. high; orifice 
88.9 mm. diameter. Rim rounded. Concavity, 73 mm. deep. Bottom flat and 
76.2 mm. diameter. 
Bowl of slate-gray steatite, very clean and new in appearance, 82.5 mm. 
diameter, 60.8 mm. high. Rim rounded, 4.7 mm. wide, a groove running around 
the bowl 4.7 mm. below the rim. Concavity 55.5 mm, deep. Bottom perfectly 
flat, 53.9 mm. diameter. This was the middle-sized bowl of the nesting of 
three bowls described above. 
Bowl of black steatite, 41.2 mm. diameter, 25.4 mm. high; orifice 31.7 mm. 
diameter. Rim rounded. Conecayity, 20.6 mm. deep. Bottom rounded. The 
bowl is somewhat lopsided and the rim is very uneven. Found as the smallest 
bowl of the group of three nested bowls. 
Bowl of gray steatite with pretty black veining, found in several fragments ; 
183.8 mm. diameter, 92 mm. high; orifice 114.83 mm. diameter. Rim squared, 
6.3 mm. wide, little of the rim being intact. Conecavity, 85.7 mm. deep. Bottom 
rather flat, 63.56 mm. diameter. 
CANOE-SHAPED VESSELS OF SANDSTONE AND STEATITE 
An end fragment of a unique and evidently large-sized canoe- 
shaped vessel of sandstone was recovered; also two canoe-shaped 
vessels cut from steatite. One of these latter was an unusually large 
canoe, fragmentary, and with the fragments widely scattered. For- 
tunately, both ends, which furnish practically all the information 
that we need to know about the shape of the vessel, were recovered. 
From them the entire craft can be easily reconstructed, except that 
we do not know the exact length. The specimen appears to be by 
far the largest steatite canoe ever reported from a California site, 
