HARRINGTON] DESCRIPTION OF THE ARTIFACTS 105 
Bead of reddish very fine textured sandstone, giobular in form; 9.5 mm. diam- 
eter. Hole 3 mm. diameter. 
Bead of brownish stone, 2.25 mm. long, 5.5 mm. diameter, 
Oxpsects or ASPHALT 
These consisted of molded cakes, apparently made and set aside 
so as to have always ready a supply of adhesive bitumen, and of 
small fragments broken from pluggings and cementings and the like ; 
also of fragments apparently broken from the coating of a basketry 
water jug, and many apparently natural pieces. The beach was 
strewn with pieces of soft asphalt, and La Brea canyon, east of El 
Toro, the asphalt mine at the Lucian Higgings ranch at Carpinteria, 
More’s Landing, and the asphalt mine at Goleta Point offered fur- 
ther sources of supply. 
Asphalt was also found adhering to the bases of arrowheads and 
knife blades. 
Asphalt was also found as a ring on the rim of hopper mortars, 
as an adhesive for mending broken pestles, on the tarred stones, as an 
adhesive for stemming pipes with mouthpieces of bone, at the bases 
of arrowheads, knife blades, and bone points, as the setting for inlay 
of various kinds, and as a filling for incisions or scratchings so as to 
bring out incised designs in black. 
LUMPS OF ASPHALT 
The collection of molded lumps of asphalt is the largest that has 
ever been taken from a Channel site. Most of these have the shape 
of a spheroid or of an elongated spheroid, but there are many irregu- 
larities of shape. 
Lump of asphalt, carefully molded. The surface is checked with minute 
eracks. 11.1 mm. long, 85.7 mm. wide, 38.1 mm. thick. (PI. 18, b.) 
Lump of asphalt, 98.4 mm. long, 88.9 mm. wide, 41.2 mm. thick. 
Lump of asphalt, 95.2 mm. long, 69.8 mm. wide, 44.4 mm. thick. One end has 
been broken away a little. 
Lump of asphalt of somewhat triangular shape, 84.1 mm. long, 66.6 mm. wide, 
31.7 mm. thick. 
Lump of asphalt, a perfect spheroid of carefully molded asphalt. 50.8 mm. 
long, 47.6 mm. wide, 31.7 mm. thick. (PI. 18, a.) 
Lump of asphalt, 149.2 mm. long, 123.8 mm. wide, 38.1 mm, thick. The surface 
is much checked and somewhat rough. (PI. 18, c.) 
Lump of asphalt, 104.7 mm. long, 95.2 mm. wide, 28.5 mm. thick. Surface 
rather rough. 
Lump of asphalt, 133.3 mm. long, 127 mm. wide, 57.1 mm. thick. 
Lump of asphalt, 108 mm. long, 95.2 mm. wide, 41.2 mm. thick. 
Lump of asphalt, probably in fragmentary condition, the edges consisting of 
one rounded edge and two cleavages. 76.2 mm. long, 41.2 mm. wide, 34.9 mm. 
thick. 
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