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Ficure 99.—Pottery whistle of the Taruma Phase. a, Side view. 5, Cross sectional view 
made from an X-ray of the specimen. 
decorated with fingertip impressions on the top. They are used in 
threes to support cooking pots over a fire. 
Spindle whorls (figs. 98, 100).—T wo spindle whorls in the form of 
thick disks perforated through the center came from the surface of 
E-1. They are generally symmetrical but not perfectly circular. 
The faces are slightly convex, and taper toward the edges. The com- 
plete specimen is Yocho Plain. It has a diameter of 4.0 by 4.4 cm., 
and a thickness at the center of 14 cm. The perforation is 4.0 by 
4.5 mm. on one surface and 5 mm. in diameter on the other. The 
other example has one edge broken off. It is Kalunye Plain, 3.9 cm. 
in diameter and 1.0 cm. thick. The perforation is 5 mm. in diameter 
on both surfaces, and was made by poking a stick through the damp 
clay before firing. 
A small, badly eroded disk made from a sherd and drilled somewhat 
off-center, may also be a spindle whorl (fig. 100, @). Existing di- 
ameter is 2cm., thickness 5 mm. The biconically drilled perforation 
is 5 mm. in diameter. A second small, approximately circular, 
worked sherd, 2.3 by 2.5 cm., and lacking a perforation, may be an 
unfinished spindle whorl (fig. 100, 0). 
Whistles (fig. 99).—Several small, thin-walled, irregularly shaped 
but sharply curved sherds would have remained unclassified except 
for their resemblance to pottery whistles in the ethnographic collec- 
tion in the University Museum, Philadelphia, made from the Taruma 
Indians before their extinction. The complete whistles have two 
