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made solely for decorative effect. For want of a better descriptive term, 
and also to distinguish them from the trailed lines described below, they 
will be referred to as interrupted lines. Examples are seen in Plate III, 
figure 13; Plate Y, figures 9, 11, 13, and 14; Plate VIII, figures 7 and 12; 
Plate IX, figures 1, 3, 6, and 7; Plate X, figure 12; Plate XI, figures 1 to 3, 
6, 7, and 10; Plate XII, figures 5 to 9; Plate XIII, figures 2, 3, 5, 6, and 11; 
Plate XIV, figures 3, 5, 6, 11, 15, 17, and 18; Plate XV; Plate XVI; Plate 
XVII, figure 13; and Plate XVIII, figure 5. 
The writer has not seen later Neutral pottery from elsewhere in this 
county and Waterloo county, with this kind of line, but lines produced 
apparently in a similar way occur on pottery from Wyoming valley, Pennsyl- 
vania. 1 
Stamping should perhaps not be differentiated from impressing. 
However, the writer will consider separately those impressions which were 
probably produced by using the tool end-on like a stamp. The tools 
used in producing most of the short, vertical, oblique, and horizontal 
impressions, seem to have consisted of thin splinters of wood cut squarely 
off at the stamping end, which was either left in a rough state, or smoothed, 
or notched. Impressions apparently made with the rough end of such a 
splinter are seen on the fragments illustrated in Plate III, figure 4; Plate 
IV, figure 12; Plate V, figures 1 and 11; Plate VI, figures 3 and 4; Plate 
VIII, figures 1, 2, and 8; Plate IX, figures 2, 7, and 8; Plate X, figure 5; 
Plate XI, figure 10; Plate XII, figure 10; Plate XIII, figures 5 and 6; and 
Plate XVII, figures 19 and 20. Impressions apparently made with the 
smoothed end of a splinter, some of which, however, could also have been 
produced with the finger nails, are seen on the pieces illustrated in Plate 
V, figures, 2, 5, 6, 10, and 14; Plate VII, figures 1, 4, and 6 to 10; Plate X, 
figures 3, 7, and 10; Plate XI, figure 5; Plate XII, figures 2, 7, and 13; 
Plate XIV, figures 1, 5, and 12; and Plate XVII, figures 5 to 7. Impres- 
sions which seem to have been made with the notched end of a splinter are 
seen on the fragments illustrated in Plate V, figures 3 and 4; they in many 
cases resemble those made with a roulette. The short, curved impressions, 
seen on some of the fragments, and the peculiar impressions on the frag- 
ments illustrated in Plate IV, figures 10 and 1 1 2 , and Plate X, figure 9, may 
also have been made with a stamp. 
Circles were made by stamping with the ends of small tubes, perhaps 
some of the smaller bone tubes considered as beads (See Plate IV, figure 8; 
Plate V, figure 15; and Plate XIV, figure 18). Similar impressions, appar- 
ently made with hollow grass stems 3 , which should perhaps be also con- 
sidered as stamped, are seen on the fragments illustrated in Plate XI, 
figure 4; Plate XII, figure 10; and Plate XIV, figure 20. The unevenly 
severed fibres at the end of the stem gave a peculiar, broken effect to the 
impressions on the fragment shown in Plate XI, figure 4. 
Trailing or drawing the rounded point of a tool, possibly some of the 
blunt awls, across the plastic surface, left smooth, grooved lines, such as 
are seen on the fragments illustrated in Plate III, figures 10 and 16; Plate 
IX, figures 4, 5, and 8; Plate X, figures 1 to 10; Plate XI, figures 5, 8, 
1 See Wren, op. eit., Plate 17, figures 2, 5, and 7, and Plate 21, figures 6, 7, and 11. 
-Impressions resembling those seen in figure 11, occur on a piece of pottery from Wyoming valley, Pennsylvania 
(See Wren, op. cit., Plate 22 [fig. Ill) . 
®Similar impressions are to be seen on a fragment of an earthenware pipe, from this site (Cat. No. VIII-F-17096e). 
