112 COOKING POTS AND FOOD VESSELS. 



nection with food and cooking than as toilet-cups or for the preparation 

 of toilet materials, is a small series of very beautifully-wrought bowls, or, 

 more properly, cups. These vessels are noticeable from the fact that their 

 depth is equal to or greater than the transverse diameter. 



Fig. 7, Plate VI, represents a beautifully-wrought example of these 

 carefully-fashioned cups. This cup is well polished on its exterior surface, 

 but is comparatively rough within, and exhibits clearly the marks of the 

 flint knife used in hollowing out. The rim is narrow and slopes inward, 

 and is well defined by a deeply incised line or groove extending around it. 

 This specimen measures 3.5 inches in diameter at the mouth and is 3.2 

 inches in height. The sides are quite thin and the bottom is .6 of an inch 

 in thickness. 



[In relation to ornamented vessels of the general pattern described 

 by Dr. Abbott, three examples cut out of steatite, and received recently in 

 Mr. Schumacher's collection from the island of Santa Catalina, are worthy 

 of special mention. 



One of these (P. M., 13316) is of the shape shown in Fig. 7, Plate VI. 

 It has a diameter of 5 inches, measured from side to side, and is 4 inches in 

 height; is excavated to the depth of 3 inches and has a diameter at the mouth 

 of 3.5 inches. On the outside of this cup or bowl is the following ornamen- 

 tation : A raised band, about one-quarter of an inch wide, is continued 

 round the cup, one-half an inch from the edge of the lip. Round the bot- 

 tom portion are two deeply-cut grooves, about half an inch apart. Between 

 the band above and the grooves below, on the bulging sides, are three 

 groups of X-like marks. This specimen does not show any indication of 

 contact with fire. 



A "much smaller cup of the same shape (P. M., 13143) has a similar 

 band about the lip, but in this case so near to the edge as to be in part upon 

 the upper surface of the lip. Below and in part on the bottom of the cup 

 are four deeply-incised lines, forming three raised bands between them. 

 On the sides, in two groups, with a smooth space of about an inch between 

 them, are series of irregularly-cut, oblique lines. One of these groups con- 

 tains sixteen lines and the other twenty. The inside of this cup is discol- 

 ored by red pigment and was evidently used for toilet purposes. 



