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other elements on a few rims. The base of the awl seen in figure 19, and 
the edges of the flattened, expanded butt of the one in Plate XX, figure 21, 
are also decorated with notches. 
Equally as simple as the notches are the round and oval pits, seen on 
the fragments of pottery illustrated in Plate III, figure 11, and Plate XI, 
figure 8. Pits are less commonly used than notches, being the sole decora- 
tion on only twenty pots, and occurring in combination with other elements 
on a few others. A few pieces have this decoration on the inside surface. 
Pits are also seen on the fragment of a pipe shown in Plate XXIII, figure 11. 
There are large, deep, round, and oval depressions on the inside of the 
rims of about seventy different pots. Some of them can be seen in Plate 
XVIII, figures 2, 4, and 6. In some cases they occur at intervals around 
the inside of the rims, but in most cases in groups of three, which are 
usually below the peak-like elevations of the rims, as in Plate XVIII, 1 
figure 6. 
The various kinds of angular depressions — rectangular, triangular, 
arrowhead-like, and irregular — might also be called simple elements (See 
Plate III, figures 14 and 15; Plate IV, figures 1, 5, and 6; Plate VI, figures 
1, 2, and 4; and Plate XVII, figures 12, 14, 16, and 17). They occur on 
both inside and outside surfaces, but in fewer cases on the inside than on 
the outside. About fifty pots had this kind of decoration, about one- 
fourth having other decorative elements in addition. 
Equally simple, as well as among the commonest decorative elements, 
are the short, oblique elements which occur about as often on the inside 
as on the outside of the pots. One hundred and ninety-tw r o pots had this 
kind of decoration on the outside, and about two hundred and eighteen 
had it on the inside (See Plate II, figure 7; Plate III, figures 4 and 8; 
Plate IV, figures 2, 3, 4, and 10; Plate V, figures 1 to 6, 10, 11, and 15; 
and Plate XII, figures 10 and 13). These oblique lines are in many cases 
combined with other decorative elements. On a few pieces, as on the 
fragment illustrated in Plate VI, figure ll 2 , they are crowded together. 
In some cases they are in tw r o rows, with the elements of each row at different 
angles. The decoration on one fragment of pipe consists of a row of these 
oblique elements, each slanting in a different direction. The two row r s on 
the pottery fragment, illustrated in Plate X, figure 7, might be described 
as pectinated, giving a zigzag effect which could not be brought out clearly 
in the illustration. 
Short, vertical elements, like those seen on the fragment illustrated in 
Plate IV, figure 12, are seen in fewer cases than those just described, only 
about twenty pots having been decorated with them. They occur in 
nearly as many cases on the inside as on the outside of the rims. 
Curved depressions, like those on the fragments seen in Plate V, figure 
7, and Plate VI, figures 5 to 7, 9, and 10, occur on both outside and inside 
surfaces, in some cases in combination with other elements. About fifty 
pots were so decorated. This kind of decoration is also seen on the sides 
of the stem of the fragmentary earthenware pipe, illustrated in Plate 
XXIII, figure 11. 
iFragments of pots with similar depressions on the inside from sites on lot 61 , con. Ill, Onondaga tp., Brant co. 
(Cat. Nos. VIII-F-8835a and j and VIII-F-8861a and 6); lot 25, con. VII, Malahide tp., Elgin co. (Cat. No. VIII-F- 
3798); and lots 1 and 2, con. VIII, Bayham tp., Elgin co. (Cat. Nos. VIII-F-3729and VIII-F-3752), are in the Museum. 
*See Wren: op. cit., Plate 19, fig. 5, for a fragment from Pennsylvania, similarly decorated. 
