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Life forms are exceedingly rare in local ceramic art. From ^Manhattan 

 Island and Van Cortlandt Park, there come a number of specimens show- 

 ing incised human ( ?) faces. This is not an uncommon form on Iroquoian 

 sites in central and western New York. On the Bowman's Brook site at 

 Mariner's Harbor, Staten Island fragments of a typically Algonkian pot 

 were obtained which bore at intervals, rude raised faces. Withjthe sole 

 exception of a rather well-modeled clay face, apparently [broken [from the 



FIG 14. POTTERY FORMS OF THE COASTAL ALGONKIN. 



bowl of a pipe (Fig. 15b) found at Port Washington, Long Island, by ]\Ir. 

 ]\I. R. Harrington, this brief statement concludes the list of pottery life 

 forms reported from this area, although others may yet be found here, 

 since some interesting objects have been collected in imme(hately adjacent 

 territory. 



The forms of decoration consist of stamping with a stamp, roulette or 

 paddle, and incision (Figs. IG and 17.) Occasionally, but very rarely. 



