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Kimmswick Focus |Con’t.] 
Tremendous majority of Im 
perial Plain on ‘igs villa 
and ceremonial s 
Plattin Focus [Con’t.] 
Use of Plattin Clay Tempered 
ware on village and Imperial 
Plain on ceremonial sites. 
Large numbers of textile 
ds. 
Textile marked pottery infre- 
marked sher quent. 
Certain traits and components that we have found are 
capable of being compared with cultural complexes described else- 
where. The Festus focus has some resemblances to Fowke’s 
Missouri Valley bluff mounds sucn as hematite worked into 
grooved axes, winged drills and expanded base drills, large 
stemmed projectile points, a minority of coarsely chipped small 
isosceles projectile points, cord marked grit tempered ware, ver- 
tical rims sometimes with slightly flaring lips, rock pavements 
with partly articulated burials in low mounds, rock placements 
around burials in mound fill’ and human bones scattered in the 
mound fill. 
From the McCormack component of the Boyce focus is a 
Pipe On a projecting stem of red claystone similar to a few pipes 
from Oneota aspect. From the same component is a very thin 
flaring bitted celt of polished chert that has analogies from Lower 
Mississippi Pattern components from Texas and Oklahoma. 
The Middle Mississippi pottery, our Imperial Plain, is found 
in several forms similar to Middle Mississippi pottery from Ca- 
hokia and Moundville. Among other Middle Mississippi traits 
stone box graves are found with the Tennessee-Cumberland 
aspect of the Middle Mississippi phase and with the Madison- 
ville focus of the Fort Ancient aspect of the Upper Mississippi 
phase as well as the Etowah focus of the Middle Mississippi 
phase. The etching on the upper surfaces of plates is found oc- 
casionally on pottery in Middle Mississippi sites but according 
to Dr. Thorne Deuel this decorative technique seems to be 
characteristic of the Lower Mississippi pattern. 
1A hrcrgte alec Inves. in Boone rene Mo., The Missouri Archae- 
ologist, Berry, J. B., Wrench, J. E., Chap man, €. Seitz, W., 
1938, 
