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hole half way through from the inside. My three similar speci- 
mens probably represent two pots. Figure 12, Plate IV, repre- 
sents the only specimen I have, with an ear. The rim is plain 
and turns outward about half an inch. The group of eleven pieces 
represented by Figure 19, Plate VII, and Figure 28, Plate VIII, 
should probably be classed here. All show a plain or escalloped 
edge turned out. Ten pots are discernible. 
Eighteen fragments with no decorations at all on the pot edge 
have differences enough in thickness and material to indicate 
fifteen pots. 
Figures 13 and 14, Plate V, are of another distinctive class. 
They look as though they had been moulded in a basket of woven 
grass. In Figure 13 lines as of twisted straw run .diagonally 
down the piece. The vertical line of marks resembles gouges of 
a pointed stick. The protuberances on both may well have been 
made by punching a blunt stick part way through. Nine pieces 
of as many pots show these protuberances with variations in the 
ground work. One of them has lines above the punchings run- 
ning at right angles to those below. Two other specimens of 
different curvature have similar ground lines running horizontally 
and two have lines running vertically, none of which have the 
punch marks. 
Plate VI shows three specimens from the sides of pots but 
with distinctive markings. Figure 18, Plate VII, is of a plain pot 
with punch marks inward, but not entirely through. It is one of 
three specimens which indicate two pots. Three fragments of 
different undecorated pots, and my one red piece, which has 
diagonal ground lines, have a single hole near the edge as though 
for a bail. 
Figures 20, 21, and 22 are of pieces decorated with the end of 
a small woman’s finger or finger nail. In all I have nine specimens 
of as many pots so decorated. Note the thickened rim of Figure 
21 as shown in Figure 21 A. Figure 30 shows some thickening 
and is flared out. ' It represents three pots. 
Figures 23 and 26 represent the most numerous type in my col- 
lection. They have markings on the edge like those made by 
the pressure of a round twig. The twenty-eight pieces so marked 
belong to about twenty-five pots. These pots differ more widely 
in size than any other class. Of this class I have three pieces 
of one pot that fit together giving an outside surface roughly 
eight inches square. Figure 24 shows an out-turned edge like 
