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fig. 1; plates XXXVI and XXXVII. It is interesting to note that 

 Etowah also has an example of the grilled stamp design. 15 



Vessels with a surface finish resulting from the application of a 

 paddle with carved squares are found sparingly at Fox farm 16 17 and 

 Madisonville. 18 Those are, however, the only two Fort Ancient sites 

 at which this design occurs and the other characteristics of the vessels 

 on which it appears are quite distinct from those of the Norris Basin 

 sites. 



In Greene County, Ind., at the Huntingdon site, Black 19 found one 

 sherd which had small squares imprinted on the outer surface. The 

 squares measured 0.5 cm. This site can be attributed to the Woodland 

 culture in the north. Wintemberg, in speaking of the distinguishing 

 characteristics generally credited to Algonquian peoples in Canada, 

 says: "Other surface markings were made with a paddle with a 

 chequered surface." 20 The Parmelee rock shelter in Wayne County, 

 Ky., excavated by the Museum of Anthropology of the University of 

 Michigan, contained a few sherds with this same stamp design. Other 

 sherds from this site have a surface finish that was obtained from the 

 same type of weave that characterizes Type III. 



As a matter of fact, most of the grit-tempered pottery from the 

 caves and rock shelters of eastern Kentucky can be included in the 

 same general pottery classification with the Norris Basin cave sites. 21 



I have called attention to the presence of pottery with fabric im- 

 pressions resembling Type III in association with the Eound Grave 

 people and at the Stallings Island Mound. In Holmes' discussion 

 of the pottery of eastern United States he illustrates sherds belong- 

 ing to his Middle Atlantic province that are similar to Type III. 

 This is particularly clear in the case of sherds d and e, on plate CXL, 

 that came from a site near the junction of the Anacostia and Po- 

 tomac Eivers. 22 A number of sherds in the Ceramic Kepository, from 

 the Levanna site, 23 in New York, appear to have the impression of a 

 simple twine or plaited weave upon their outer surfaces. W. J. 

 Wintemberg, in his report on the excavation of a shell heap in Nova 

 Scotia, pictures two sherds, Nos. 4 and 6 on plate XXVI, 24 that he con- 

 siders as having been decorated by a cord-wound stick, but which 

 appear to me to have been impressed with a fabric similar to Type III. 



Probably the closest relationship to the type of pottery found at 



"Ashley, 1932. 



16 Smith, 1910, Plate XXV. 



"Ceramic Repository collections. 



18 Ceramic Repository collections. 



18 Black, 1933, p. 300. 



20 Wintemberg, 1931, p. 82. 



a Funkhouser and Webb, 1929 and 1930. 



23 Holmes, 1903. 



23 Ritchie, 1928. 



94 Wintemberg, 1929. 



