Pottery 



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made by pressing the end of a small twig into the soft clay. Less than 

 an inch below, three shallow grooves, about 5 mm wide, encircle the 

 pot, and under these are the zigzag lines found so often in the archaic 

 Algonquian pottery of New England. 

 The unornamented portion of the exterior 

 shows careful smoothing. The height of 

 this vase is 22 cm, and the rim is 21 cm 

 in diameter. Fragments of two other 

 vessels were taken from this altar, but 

 too few to restore the vases. Judging 

 from portions of the rims, one was about 

 20.5 cm in diameter at the top, and was 

 very rudely made, with no attempt at 

 decoration, of the ordinary round-bottom 

 form. Some of the fragments had indis- 

 tinct cord-markings. A third vessel was 

 somewhat smaller. The curvature of the 

 rim fragments would indicate a vessel 

 with a diameter of about 15.5 cm at the 

 opening, with walls averaging less than 

 6 mm in thickness. With the exception 

 of a space of 3 cm below the rim, the 

 fragments were thickly covered with 

 marks of twisted fibre cords. In these 

 pots the clay had been tempered with 

 powdered stone." 



The northernmost place in which a 

 cemetery containing typical middle Mis- 

 sissippi Valley pottery was found, is that 

 at the mouth of the Wabash River, 

 southern Indiana, where a survey con- 

 ducted by the Phillips Academy found 

 about a hundred jars, bottles, and bowls. 1 



Objects of Burned Clay. — Eight 

 objects of burned clay are shown in Fig. 

 71; a is probably a form on which 

 sheet copper for ear-busks was worked. 

 The groove was made by pressing a thin, straight shaft of some 

 sort into the clay before baking, and extends about half-way 



Fig. 66. 



Human Effigy in 



Antler from Altar i. 



^Bulletin of the, Phillips Academy, No. 3, pp. 72 — 86. 



