. Bulletin. Ethnology. I 1 I CM. Figure 99.—Pottery whistle of the Taruma Phase, a, Side view, b, Cross sectional view made from an X-ray of the specimen. decorated with fingertip impressions on the top. They are used in threes to support cooking pots over a fire. Spindle whorls (figs. 98, 100).—Two spindle whorls in the form of thick disks perforated through the center came from the surface of E-1. They are generally symmetrical but not perfectly circular. The faces are slightly convex, and taper toward the edges. The com- plete specimen is Yocho Plain. It has a diameter of by cm., an
. Bulletin. Ethnology. I 1 I CM. Figure 99.—Pottery whistle of the Taruma Phase, a, Side view, b, Cross sectional view made from an X-ray of the specimen. decorated with fingertip impressions on the top. They are used in threes to support cooking pots over a fire. Spindle whorls (figs. 98, 100).—Two spindle whorls in the form of thick disks perforated through the center came from the surface of E-1. They are generally symmetrical but not perfectly circular. The faces are slightly convex, and taper toward the edges. The com- plete specimen is Yocho Plain. It has a diameter of by cm., and a thickness at the center of cm. The perforation is by mm. on one surface and 5 mm. in diameter on the other. The other example has one edge broken off. It is Kalunye Plain, cm, in diameter and cm. thick. The perforation is 5 mm. in diameter on both surfaces, and was made by poking a stick through the damp clay before firing, A small, badly eroded disk made from a sherd and drilled somewhat off-center, may also be a spindle whorl (fig. 100, a). Existing di- ameter is 2 cm., thickness 5 mm. The biconically drilled perforation is 5 mm. in diameter. A second small, approximately circular, worked sherd, by cm,, and lacking a perforation, may be an unfinished spindle whorl (fig. 100, h). Whistles (fig. 99).—Several small, thin-walled, irregularly shaped but sharply curved sherds would have remained unclassified except for their resemblance to pottery whistles in the ethnographic collec- tion in the University Museum, Philadelphia, made fi'om the Taruma Indians before their extinction. The complete whistles have two. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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