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Knobbed or scalloped. This type is found on the Silverheels site, 

 the Gus Warren site and at White Haven, Pennsylvania. A few 

 Iroquois pots had pitcher noses. Some of these have been found 

 near Buffalo, at Ripley and in Jefferson county near Watertown. 

 The pitcher nose may or may not be a development from one of the 

 four corners of the square-topped type i^see plate 27). Other pots 

 have small handles that unite the collar with the neck or body of 

 the vessel. Such have been found on certain sites near Buffalo, at 

 Ripley and in Jefferson county. More have been found in the last 

 place than elsewhere. Now and then seemingly aberrant forms are 

 found. At Ripley bowls were found that differed in no way from 

 those in the mound-builder villages of Ohio. They bear no resem- 

 blance to any known Iroquois type but have a rather long oval 

 body with a wide flaring mouth. Some are low and like a modern 

 bowl. The surface was scratched and roughened in pseudo-fabric 

 lines or scratched with a twig brush. Two or three peculiar bowls 

 were found on the Dann site that approximate certain Missouri 

 forms. The bowls are squat and a wide flaring mouth rises from 

 just above half the diameter. Three or four flattened handles unite 

 the underside of the lip with the body of the vessel. The flattened 

 handle is unique on this site, which, however, yields European 

 objects. (Plate 30.) 



Pottery pipes. Equally, if not more striking than the pottery 

 vessel, are clay pipes. These are usually gracefully modeled and 

 have stems from 3 to 10 inches in length. The general base line of 

 these pipes is one that follows the line formed by the forefinger 

 and thumb when the thumb is extended at right angles to the hand 

 and the ball turned back. This is the lower line of the trumpet 

 pipe. Iroquois pipes sometimes have bowls imitating the tops 

 of pots. In other instances the bowls imitate the bodies or heads 

 of birds, animals or snakes. Many have the chevron pattern 

 of parallel lines arranged in triangles about the bowl top. Some of 

 the patterns widely found throughout the Iroquoian area are the 

 trumpet form, the square-topped flaring bowl, the cylindrical bowl 

 having a wide collar decorated with parallel rings, the bird body, 

 with the bowl in the bird's back, the effigy of a man with his hands 

 to his mouth blowing through his lips, animal heads, as of the bear, 

 racoon or fox, and pipes having a human head modeled on the 

 bowl. Certain types are shown in plates 31 and 32. 



