The three transverse incisions on the top of the steatite specimen shown in [Fig. 99] may be for decorative purposes or merely as tallies as also the five small drilled pits arranged about equi-distant from each other around the top and the four similarly arranged near the bottom.
Fig. 115. Incised Design on Bowl of Pipe shown in [Fig. 107]. ½ nat. size.
The oblique incised lines on the edge of the mouthpiece and on the ridge about the middle of the pipe shown in [Fig. 100], which slant outward from left to right at an angle of about 45° and make the ridge at least suggest a twisted cord, were no doubt made for decorative purposes. Pictographic scratches may be seen on the disk-shaped stone pipe, shown in [Fig. 107]. Those on the reverse are shown in [Fig. 115]. A simple geometric incised line decoration on wood may be seen on a fragment of a bow shown in [Fig. 111]. It will be remembered that parallel irregularly arranged cuneiform incisions decorated a fragment of a bow found in the Thompson River region.[386] The incised design on the stone dish previously mentioned on [p. 38] and shown in [Fig. 116] consists of two horizontal incisions running around the upper part of the dish a little below its middle and a zigzag line made up of twenty-five V-shaped marks which fills the space between the flat rim of this dish and the upper horizontal line.
Fig. 116. Incised Design on Stone Dish. From Priest Rapids. ½ nat. size. (Drawn from photograph 44537, 9-3. Original in the collection of Mrs. Hinman.)