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sions, with the plats partly filled with horizontal lines (Plate VI, figure 4). 
The design occurs in combination with ornamentation in relief on a few 
rims and shoulders. In a few other designs the plats are trapezoidal instead 
of triangular (See Plate V, figure 28, and Plate VI, figures 19, 20) . Other 
variants are seen in Plate VI, figures 1, 8, 23. 
The continuity of the pattern on many of the rims, especially at the 
angles of the polygonal rims and below the peaked parts of others, is broken 
by the introduction of other decorative elements, including groups of vertical 
lines or grooves, circles, or more complex combinations of different elements, 
the latter in some cases necessitating adjustment of parts of the adjacent 
decoration on either side; some of these are seen in Plate IV, figures 18, 19, 
21-24, Plate V, figures 1-4, 16, Plate VI, figure 18, Plate VII, figures 6, 9, 
11, Plate VIII, figures 9, 15, 29, Plate IX, figures 5, 9, 14, 16-18, 20-22, 27, 
Plate X, figures 15-17, 19, and Plate XIII, figures 21-23, 25, 27, 29, 30. 
Besides the decorative elements on the bone objects, mentioned above, 
there are rows of short, incised markings on a few other bone objects, some 
of them apparently unfinished (Plate XIV, figures 29, 30, 31). One of them 
bears a design similar to that on the stem of the pipe in Plate XV, figure 35. 
The incised markings on some of the objects derived from phalanges (Plate 
XV, figures 21, 24) may have been decorative. 
The supreme aesthetic achievement of the people of this site was the 
representation of human and animal forms modelled in earthenware or 
carved in stone, the majority on earthenware pipes. There are also a few 
representations of what appear to be vegetal forms. Aside from human 
forms, there is only one possible mammalian form, although such forms are 
common at Huron and Tionontati sites, especially those of post-European 
times. All except three of the human forms consist of faces only. 
What is probably the most simple representation of the human face 
consists of the triangular groups of three circles and conical and elliptical 
depressions, mentioned on pages 45, 99, and 103, the small depressions in 
the middle of some of the circles, in some cases, making the resemblance to 
a face still more realistic {See Plate VII, figures 2, 11, and Plate IX, figures 
1-3, 5-7, 12-25. The large face seen on the rim fragment in Plate IX, 
figure 27, differs from the others in having the mouth represented by a 
long, elliptical depression instead of a circle. The group of four circles 
on the rim fragment in Plate IX, figure 9, may have been intended to 
represent the eyes, nose, and mouth. As a rule, however, not only at 
this site, but at a site of the same culture in Jefferson county, New 
York (Skinner, 4:147-148), the eyes and mouth alone are represented, 
and this is also true of most of the engraved representations of the human 
face found in Canada and the United States {See author, 5:42). One of 
the faces, in addition to the circles, has a prominent nose {See Plate IX, 
figure 25). Beauchamp (4:244) also has noted “ a rude attempt at a nose 
in connection with the three conventional circles,” on pottery from New 
York. It is possible that the vertical lines between the two upper circles on 
two other rim fragments, one of which is seen in Plate IX, figure 18, and 
the vertical lines with a row of small oval depressions between, on the 
fragments in Plate IX, figures 20 and 21, are also conventionalized repre- 
sentations of this feature. The face seen on the shoulder of the pot in 
Plate X, figure 21, is surrounded by a group of oval depressions in the form 
