handies, and that excavation of the bowl was begun, 
so that when severed from the stem the vessel 
was already well under way® 
So far as I have observed, the quarries rarely 
yield evidence of the prosecution of any other shaping 
work than that of obtaining the rounded bodies of stone 
and the partial development of vessels® Pipes, sinkers, 
ceremonial stones, and ornaments were made by the same 
people, but mostly no doubt from choice bits of stone 
carried away for the purpose, or perhaps often from 
fragments of vessels broken in use® 
About the quarries and in the quarry debris are 
specimens exhibiting every stage of the vessel-shaping 
work; irregular fragments and well-rounded masses just 
as cut from the quarry, but usually showing some defect 
of texture or shape, explaining their desertion or rejec¬ 
tion; other pieces partly shaped before the defects 
