294 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 118 



The rimless sherds probably present a more accurate picture of the 

 percentages of the different types of fabrics used on the salt pans. 

 Fourteen of the sherds were so eroded that the type of weave rep- 

 resented was not decipherable. Nine body fragments were impressed 

 with the twilled twine weave with close warp and weft. Thirty-two 

 have the plain twine weave with open weft, and of these 11 were 

 made with the large thread. Eleven of the sherds have the twilled 

 twine weave which produces a zigzag or diamond-shape imprint. 



Bowls 



This type of vessel is represented by only 10 specimens. The 

 incurving rim and smoothed surface finish are the distinguishing 

 characters of this shape. It is the hardest ware at the site, as all 

 but one of the sherds had a hardness of 2-2.5. The lip is either 

 rounded or flattened and rounded. Only three of the sherds were 

 hole tempered. Sherd No. 10, Chart XXXVII, has a small ridge 

 on the upper rim which is transversely notched. These perpendicu- 

 lar notches are short and rather shallow and may have been made 

 with the fingernail. The lip diameter for Sherd No. 1 is 8 inches. 

 See sherd 14 on plate 151, a. 



Miscellaneous 



Three roughly circular pottery disks are included in the study 

 collection. The exterior surface on one bears the marks of a cord- 

 wrapped paddle, while the other two surfaces were smoothed. One 

 sherd with a smooth outer surface and a curvature suggesting that 

 it was part of a bowl has a light red paint on its outer surface. One 

 sherd is wholly out of character with the rest of the pottery found 

 at this site. It is a small sherd with rather long shoulder and a 

 short rim set at a 45° angle to the shoulder. The lip and 

 shoulder are 0.4 cm thick; the lip is rounded. The tempering 

 material is coarse grit which looks like river sand. One of the 

 pieces of grit is 0.6 cm long and 0.3 cm wide. The rim and upper 

 shoulder are decorated with an unusual stamp paddle design. The 

 squares are small, 0.3 cm on a side, but the impressions are quite 

 deep. There are two steatite fragments 1 cm thick that were 

 probably parts of steatite bowls, as the interior surfaces are quite 

 smooth. 



Site No. 17. — Jar Kims 



As is usual in the Norris Basin, the ordinary jar-shaped vessel far 

 outnumbers any other type. Only 49 rim sherds were present, and 

 they are described in Chart XXXVIII. An unusual feature of this 

 group at Site No. 17 is the use of crushed limestone for tempering 

 material in 35 percent of the sherds, with the remainder of the frag- 



