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count the stamped ware was found to represent 25 percent of the 

 total. 



Plate 13, a, shows one sherd having a projectionlike leg. The con- 

 struction would seem to be the same as the four-legged vessels found 

 on Site No. 12. 



One fragment of a steatite vessel was taken from this cave. 



Artifacts 



Stone artifacts are shown in plate 13, h. The flint implements are 

 in general very crudely chipped. At the lower left is shown a "turkey 

 tail" projectile point 4.8 inches long, very thin and beautifully made, 

 which was found near the surface of this cave. For this reason it 

 would seem that it was introduced into the cave at a relatively late 

 period. A few perforated steatite disks and small celts were found, 

 together with crude pestles, hammerstones, and mortars. 



A seeming characteristic of this site was the use of crude two-hole 

 gorgets of hematite, sandstone, or cannel coal, as demonstrated by the 

 number of broken and unfinished specimens found. 



Plate 14, a, shows samples of the awls taken from the general dig- 

 ging on this site. Awls were very numerous, being found by the hun- 

 dreds. They were made from ulna of deer and wolf, deer scapula, split 

 cannon bone of deer, bird bones, and deer horns. 



Many other specialized bone artifacts were found. Plate 14, Z>, shows 

 bone chisels, horn flaking tools, carved bone handles, fishhooks, hair- 

 pins, carved bear jaw, and cut bear femora, hollowed out and prob- 

 ably used to make a grease lamp, bone gorget and spoons made from 

 shell, and the carapace of the box tortoise. 



A double spatulate object of bone 10.75 inches long was taken from 

 the deposited remains of a cremated burial. This object is highly 

 polished and may have served as a weaver's tool. 



Conclusions 



The findings in this cave are in many ways similar to those reported 

 from rock shelters in eastern Kentucky x which have been attributed to 

 members of the great Algonquian family. Among those characteris- 

 tics which seem to be diagnostic the following may be mentioned : 



1. Occupancy and burial under rock shelters and in the mouths of 

 caves. 



2. Predominance of flexed burials devoid of artifacts. 



3. Occasional evidence of burials of dismembered bodies in the 

 flesh 2 and bundle burials of bones. 



1 See below, footnotes 2, 3, 4. 



2 Funkhouser and Webb, 1929, p. 67. 



