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There is a small amount of Imperial Plain textile marked pot- 
tery. Other characteristics are flaring bitted highly polished 
thin flint celts, bowl pipes on stems of red claystone, bowl pipes 
and bent tubular pipes of Imperial Plain ware, finely chipped 
stemmed projectile points, biconcave discoidals, polished celts, 
polished chisel celts, perforated mussel shell hoes, coarsely 
chipped hoes and polished bone awls, one flattened at one end 
and carved into the outline of an eagle. (See Plate XII B). 
There is unmistakable influence of the Woodland in the Boyce 
focus as indicated by the preponderance of cord marked ware in 
the village and the coarse chipping observed on some of the 
flint implements. 
The Kimmswick focus has the following characteristic 
determinants: extended human burials in shallow pits sometimes 
surrounded by sherds and sometimes with grave furniture, 
burials in the village debris, rectangular houses with depressed 
floors with ditches below the edge of the floors for inserting 
wall posts, large rectangular houses with center posts, sherd and 
clay lined shallow cooking basins or large common bowls set in 
shallow excavations adjacent to irregular shaped concave 
burned clay fireplaces, very large amounts of Imperial Plain 
pottery and some Crystal City Cord Marked pottery. A great 
deal of the former ware from the large common bowls is tex- 
tile impressed giving the evidence of several weaves.! We have 
hesitated in calling these large bowls salt pans because we are 
not yet certain that they were used for salt manufacture. 
The most common pottery shapes are “seed” bowls, large 
deep bowls, common bowls, effigy flange bowls, plates and olla 
or jar forms. Small water bottles and small ollas have been 
found with the burials. Etched designs on the upper surfaces 
of plate rims and red slips are the most common forms of 
decoration. The latter is particularly prevalent. There are sev- 
eral lip forms on the large open bowls. There are also notched 
small triangular projectile points, finely chipped expanded base 
1A special study is being made of these textiles. ae study is to 
appear in the January 1942 issue of American Antiqui 
