1 66 Hopewell Mound Group 



although a number of fragments were found on the village site and 

 scattered through the mounds. The amount recovered is not to be com- 

 pared with that from the Baum site, ten miles distant, or from sites of 

 the Fort Ancient culture. We cannot determine from the field evidence 

 whether the utensils of the Hopewell people were made from wood, 

 basketry, etc., but they seem not to have used pottery as extensively 

 as the other tribes of the Ohio Valley. We have not sufficient Hopewell 

 pottery to positively determine by what tribe it was made, but such as 

 I have seen seems to indicate that it is early Algonkin. The pottery 

 jars found by Squier and Davis in other mounds do not appear to be of 



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Fig. 6j. 

 Effigy of a Bird Carved from Bone from Altar 2. 



Madisonville or Fort Ancient type. The Hopewell pottery is certainly 

 not southern, and none of the southern forms of bottles, effigies, etc., 

 are found in the Scioto Valley. This is significant as indicating that 

 although the Hopewell people obtained flint, mica, sharks' teeth, and 

 ocean shells from the south, their art was not effected by the prevailing 

 southern forms. 



An ordinary cooking-pot was found in the village site. Restored, it 

 is about 14 cm in height and 13 cm across the top in diameter. .It is 

 the ordinary village site type and carries no significance. Willoughby 

 states that "fragments of a number of pottery vases were taken from 

 Altar 1. Enough pieces were found of one to show the original form 

 (Fig. 70) . The walls of this vessel have a nearly uniform thickness of a 

 little more than 6 mm. The clay had been mixed with pounded quartz. 

 The bottom is slightly rounded, and the upper part of the rim is orna- 

 mented by notches. For a depth of 24 mm the outer edge of the rim is 

 ornamented with parallel incised lines, and these are crossed at intervals 

 by a group of other lines drawn at right angles with the first. Beneath 

 this band is a single row of depressions encircling the vase, probably 



