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right; those of two other sections slant to the left. Those of the fourth 
section possibly slanted to the right, to conform with those of the section 
illustrated, but this part of the pot was not found. There is a somewhat 
similar design on the opposite side of the rim of the partly restored pot, 
seen in Plate XVI. Horizontal lines, combined with other decorative 
elements, occurred on two hundred and two pots (/See Plate III, figure 16; 
Plate V, figures 9, 11, 13, and 14; Plate VII, figures 4 and 12; Plate VIII, 
figures 3, 7, and 10; Plate IX, figures 2, and 5 to 8; Plate X, figures 2 to 5, 
and 7 to 12; Plate XI, figures 1 to 10; Plate XII, figures 1 to 9, and 11; 
Plate XIII, figures 1 to 6 and 9 to 11; Plate XIV, figures 10, 11, 14, and 
16 to 20; and Plate XVIII, figures 5 and 6). A few of these composite 
patterns resemble some of those seen on Neutral pottery. 
Curved lines, usually forming part of the decoration given by hori- 
zontal lines, occurred on only a few pots. Some of these are seen on the 
fragments illustrated in Plate XIII, figures 1, 3, 8, and 11, and Plate 
XIV, figure 1. 
Curved lines, other than impressed circles, in this northern part of 
the continent, occur almost solely on what Holmes styles the “Northwestern 
Group of Pottery.” 1 
Small circles occurred on a few pots. They appear along the top of 
the rim on three fragments, as in the one illustrated in Plate XIV, figure 20; 
along the outer angle of the rim of the fragment, seen in Plate XII, 
figure 10; between the nodes on the fragment, illustrated in Plate V, figure 
15; and grouped in the form of a triangle, as in Plate XIV, figure 18. 
The nodes have a certain decorative effect. They do not occur on 
pottery devoid of other decoration, and they form part of only a few of the 
more complex designs ( See Plate IX, figure 6; Plate X, figure 10; and Plate 
XI, figure 5). In some cases the spaces between the nodes are decorated 
with other elements ( See Plate V, figures 11 to 15). 
Part of the decoration of about twenty pots consisted of U or V-shaped, 
shield-like figures below the rims, as on the fragments illustrated in Plate 
XIII, figures 1 to 9, and 11, and Plate XIV, figures 1, 2, 4, and 18. They 
occurred most commonly on the pots with peaked rims. This figure w'as 
used to break a band of horizontal lines surrounding three pot rims (See 
Plate XIII, figures 2 and 9, and Plate XIV, figure 1), where it embraced 
no additional ornamentation, but left a small, blank, triangular field. 
In one instance, this space is partly filled w r ith a row r of short lines that 
have two longer vertical lines below (Plate XIII, figure 6). Another 
fragment has the space partly filled wdth short, oblique elements (Plate 
XIII, figure 11). In the design, seen on the fragment illustrated in Plate 
XIII, figure 1, the space is filled with finger-nail impressions. Other 
specimens have the space filled w T ith long, vertical lines, as seen in figures 
3 and 4, on the same plate, those in figure 3 consisting of one long and two 
short. In two instances, the space is occupied by conventionalized human 
faces (Plate XIV, figures 18 and 20). Judging from the part of the design 
still remaining on the fragment, illustrated in Plate XIII, figure 10, it w r as 
probably different from the others on the same plate. In Plate XIV, 
figure 3, one of the V-shaped figures is placed below an encircling band of 
horizontal lines. In figure 5, on the same plate, the figure is reversed, and 
'See Holmes, W. H.: "Aboriginal Pottery of the Eastern United States,” Twentieth Ann. Kept, of the Bureau 
of Am. Ethn. (1898-99), Plate CLXIII, figure/ (from Madisonville, Ohio), and Plate CLXVIII, b (from Illinois). 
