. Bulletin. Ethnology. 116 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bdll. 174. ~:=i'£:^:i^^..^«iit^,^ a b Figure 8—Pottery pipes from houses 1 [h, USNM 381624) and 2 {a, USNM 381642), Doniphan site. Actual size. There are three spherical clay objects whose purpose I am unable to suggest. One was apparently shaped with some care and is well smoothed, but undecorated; it measures 25 by 23 by 20 mm. The second is crudely formed and badly cracked, with dimensions of 43 by 30 mm. The third is a baked clay pellet approximately 15 mm. in diameter. CHIPPED STONE Specimens in this category were not plentiful nor
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 116 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bdll. 174. ~:=i'£:^:i^^..^«iit^,^ a b Figure 8—Pottery pipes from houses 1 [h, USNM 381624) and 2 {a, USNM 381642), Doniphan site. Actual size. There are three spherical clay objects whose purpose I am unable to suggest. One was apparently shaped with some care and is well smoothed, but undecorated; it measures 25 by 23 by 20 mm. The second is crudely formed and badly cracked, with dimensions of 43 by 30 mm. The third is a baked clay pellet approximately 15 mm. in diameter. CHIPPED STONE Specimens in this category were not plentiful nor do they exhibit especially competent workmanship. The commonest material is a gray or blue-gray chert of uncertain origin; it may be from the Flint Hills area in the Kansas River drainage. Planoconvex end scrapers, 11 in number, tend to be more or less triangular to ovoid in outline, with one flat or slightly curving surface retained from the original spall and the other surfaces ridged or keeled. Maximum thickness is usually at or near the steeply chipped broad end, where the edge formed by retouching and the plane surface tends to show much wear and is sometimes blunted from use. These scrapers range in length from 37 to 70 mm., and in width from 18 to 31 mm. Six of the specimens were found in house 2, five in house 1, in all cases on the floor. There are four side scrapers or knives, consisting of irregularly shaped medium- sized spalls, retouched along one edge for scraping or cutting purposes. Another knife is represented by a portion of thin bifacially chipped flake, tapered at one end and rounded at the other; it is curved and broken, and may have been originally semilunar in outline, with the. 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. W
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