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2. Monitor or platform pipe, plat- 

 form projecting before bowl, 

 with or without tiny carved 

 stem or mouthpiece. Of the 

 latter, one specimen is known. 



3. Trumpet-shaped stone pipe. 



4. Rectangular stone pipe, human 

 face carved on front of bowl. 



It may be remarked that more stone 

 pipes have been reported from the Indian 

 cemetery at Burial Ridge, Tottenville, 

 Staten Island, than from all the rest of 

 the area put together. The second 

 and third types are represented by one 

 specimen each from Burial Ridge and 

 from nowhere else in this region. Four 

 or five pipes of the first class have been 

 found there as well. The last class is 

 represented by a single specimen ob- 

 tained by Mr. W. L. Calver at Inwood, 

 Manhattan Island. Undoubtedly the 

 clay pipe was the most common form 

 used in this locality. 



Steatite Vessels. These are not at 

 all abundant, though occurring almost 

 everywhere. They were doubtless all 

 imported from New England, as there 

 are no steatite quarries within the range 

 of the New York Coastal Algonkin. 

 The single form found is that common 

 in the east, an oblong, fairly deep vessel 

 with a lug, ear, or handle at each end. 

 Occasionally, such vessels are orna- 

 mented by rude incisions along the rim. 



ARTICLES OF CLAY. 



Pottery Pipes are common every- 

 where. They are usually manufac- 

 tured of a better quality of clay than 

 that used for vessels, and bear fairly 

 similar designs. They are susceptible 

 of division into the following classes: 



1. Straight pipe, bowl expanding 

 slightly. 



2. Bowl much larger than stem, 



leaving it at an angle of forty- 

 five degrees. Stem round. 



3. Same as number 2, but stem 



angular and much flattened. 



4. Effigy pipes, (represented by a 

 pottery human head apparently 

 broken from a pipe bowl, 

 obtained by Mr. M. R. Harr- 

 ington at Port Washington, 

 Long Island). 



The straight pipe seems to have 

 been obtained only on Staten Island 

 on the north shore in the region occu- 

 pied by the Hackensack. While no- 

 where as abundant as upon the Iro- 

 quoian sites of central and western 

 New York, the clay pipe is rather 

 common and is a prominent feature 

 in the coast culture of New York. 

 It is more abundant perhaps in the 

 southern part of the area, but this 

 may well be due to the fact that data 

 from this region are more easily 

 accessible. The triangular-stemmed 

 "trumpet" pipe so common on the 

 Iroquoian sites is unknown in this 

 region. 



POTTERY VESSELS. 



The pottery of this region may all 

 be considered as being either the 

 native Algonkian in type or showing 

 Iroquoian influence with a third and 

 intermediate variety. Algonkian ves- 

 sels may be divided into the following 

 groups according to shape: 



1. Conical, pointed bottom, slight- 

 ly swollen sides, circumference 

 largest at the mouth, the 

 typical Algonkian pot of this 

 area, Fig. a. 



2. Like number 1, but much 



rounder and broader, Fig. b. 



3. Bottom pointed, sides slightly 



