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carved a bird or animal strikingly like those they modeled on pipes 

 (see figure 16). 



The Iroquois were an agricultural people of village dwellers. 

 Early Iroquois villages were on hills overlooking valleys and were 

 stockaded. The early villages had earth rings about them and some- 

 times an outer ditch. Upon the ring or wall of earth the palisades 

 were erected. Later villages were in the valleys beside lakes and 



Fig. 16 Wooden spoon from Belvidere. Found 

 by George L. Tucker in a Seneca grave. 



streams and were not stockaded. The Iroquois towns' of the sixteenth 

 and seventeenth centuries were increasingly without such a wall. 

 The Iroquois did not build mounds, of the character known through- 

 out Ohio or Wisconsin, at least when they used the pottery and 

 pipes we have described. 



Iroquois houses were of bark and there were large communal 

 dwellings. Many of them held from five to twelve families or more. 



