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in Northern New York and Canada, and I may add that in New Eng- 

 land such pottery has been found. In many cases the borders of vessels 

 are ornamented with undulating ribs, showing the marks of " finger- 

 squeezing." A marked peculiarity of the pottery consists in the eleva- 



Fig. 15. 



Fig. ID. 



Fig. 17. 



FigB. 10 to 17 show a few of the knobs or handles which are peculiar to the Omori depoeit. 

 Not a eins;le vessel wag found with legs, as with the Central American pottery, but most of the 

 vessels have raised knobs on the margin. Fig. 16 is looped, so that a wooden handle might be ad- 

 justed. Fig. 11 is 190 mm. in its longest diameter; the size of the other knobs may be estimated 

 from this. 



tion of the rim or border into ornamented knobs or handles, some of 

 which are represented in Figs. 10 to 17 inclusive. Some painted pot- 

 tery was also found, the coloring matter of which, on analysis by Prof. 

 Jewett, of the Imperial University of Tokio, proves to be cinnabar. The 



