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flat strips of clay (each about an inch wide in case of the 

 White Island pot) and building up the pot, by making flrst 

 one tier, then by rubbing to make the two adhere, then another 

 layer and so on. In the Southwest pots are frequently built 

 up by taking a long and narrow strip and winding them 

 around and building up spirally until the pot is formed, but 

 in this case there is no trace of the spiral structure, only a very 

 clear evidence of one ring of clay after another. After the 



Fig. 12. 



Fig. 13. 



Fig. 14. 



Fig. 12. — Fragment of the rim of a pot snowing ornamentation by use of 

 the simple end of a stick. 1/2 natural size. 



Fig. 13. — Fragment of pottery with pattern resulting from use of more 

 complicated tools, and the use of more than one tool. 1/2 natural size. 



Fig. 14. — Pattern resulting from the use of a rotated disc on a handle. 

 1/2 natural size. 



pot had been roughly built up it was smoothed down and care- 

 fully shaped, the surface being prepared for whatever orna- 

 mentation it was to receive. 



On the pots from the Maine shell heaps the ornamentation 

 was of the simplest, there being no trace of coloring, and the 

 patterns being imprinted on the surface. None of the pots had 

 any incised pattern, in which they are very distinctive and also 

 primitive. There were but few methods of impressing the 

 ornamentation, the simplest being by using the end of a stick 

 which had been squared or rounded in various shapes, a series 

 of similar indentations being put on the pot as in fig. 12. A 

 modification of this is seen when the stick was cut into a paddle 

 form and along the edge a series of notches or teeth was made. 

 The White Island pot is decorated with such a comb-like stick, 

 the rim being covered with a series of these impressions put on 



