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Short, crescentic depressions occurred on fourteen pots, but more 
commonly on the outside than on the inside surface of the rims. The 
decoration on the fragment seen in Plate IV, figure 14, consists of confused 
bands of small crescentic depressions. 
Arrangement of either the oblique lines or crescentic impressions in a 
double row, with the elements of each row slanting in opposite directions, 
resulted in a pinnate or herring-bone pattern {See Plate VII, figures 1 to 
7, 12, and 13; Plate XVII, figure 19; and Plate XVIII, figures 1 and 3). 
Twelve of fifty pots, so decorated, had this pattern on the inside of the 
rim. It is seen in combination with other elements in Plate VII, figures 4, 
7, 9, and 11 to 13, and Plate XII, figure 2. A departure from the usual 
arrangement is seen in the fragment, illustrated in Plate VII, figure 1, 
where a blank space is left between each oblique line of the upper row. 
Part of the pattern on the inside surface of the rim fragment, illustrated 
in Plate XVII, figure 19, consists of two rows of oblique lines slanting in 
the same direction, and part of two rows each with lines slanting in opposite 
directions. Although resembling a spray of leaves, it is hardly likely that 
these pinnate designs were intentionally phyllomorphic. They do not 
occur on pottery from later Neutral sites in Oxford county and Waterloo 
county. Some pottery from what are probably Neutral sites, in other 
parts of the province, bears this kind of decoration; one site is on lot 61, 
con. Ill, Onondaga tp., Brant co. 1 , the other on lot 4, con. V, Malahide 
tp., Elgin co. 2 
A repetition of this pinnate arrangement formed a band of vertical 
disconnected zigzags, like those seen in Plate VII, figures 8 to 11. Thirteen 
pots had this kind of decoration. In the design, seen on the fragment 
illustrated in Plate IX, figure 8, each row of oblique elements is separated 
by an encircling horizontal line. 
The reticulate pattern on the fragments, shown in Plate VIII, figures 
4, 5, and 8, and Plate XVIII, figure 4, resulted from a further combination 
of oblique elements. Forty-nine pots bore this decoration, twenty-six of 
them having it on the inside of the rim and thirteen on the outside. The 
reticulate design, seen on the fragment illustrated in Plate III, figure 9, is 
crudely irregular. The lines on the small fragment seen in figure 10, on 
the same plate, cross each other at right angles. What may be regarded 
as stages in the evolution of this particular pattern are seen on the frag- 
ments illustrated in Plate VIII, figures 1 and 2 (lower row). 
Horizontal lines occur either singly or in bands of from two to seven 
lines on a large number of pots (See Plate VIII, figures 6, 11, and 12; 
Plate IX, figures 1, 3, and 4; Plate X, figures 1 and 6; and Plate XIV, 
figure 15). 
Very few of the pots had this decoration on the inside surface of the 
rims. Bands, consisting of three horizontal lines, occurred on the largest 
number; bands of four on the next largest number; then bands of five, two, 
six, and seven lines. Single lines occurred more commonly than bands of 
six or seven lines. The lines on the inside surface of one pot, as is shown 
by the fragment illustrated in Plate XVIII, figure 6, were separated 
into four nearly equal divisions or sections. The short oblique lines, 
which join the ends of the horizontal lines of this section, slant to the 
*Cat. Nos. VIII-F-8834e and VIII-F-8842, Nat. Mus. of Canada. 
*Cat. No. 24830, Prov. Mus., Toronto. 
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