THE KEMAINS OF CITIES OF THE STONE AGE. 89 



of the vessel, where the fire could not reach it. This 

 hook for suspension was made in the shape of a human 

 head and neck, the hole for the cord being left behind 

 the neck (Figs. 14, 15, 18, 19). Many of these heads 

 were found detached, and their use was not known 

 until the fragment in Fig. 15 was found. Earthen 

 heads of this kind are often figured on American 

 vessels, and perhaps indicate guardian "manitous," 

 but their peculiar use in the Hochelagan vessels seems 

 unique. 



Some of these earthen vessels were large enough 

 to hold four gallons. Others would hold a quart or 

 less, and the smaller are usually thinner and of finer 

 clay than the others. All are very neatly made, and 

 uniform in thickness, and wonderfully regular in form 

 when we consider that they were fashioned without 

 the potter's wheel. Many are elaborately ornamented 

 with patterns worked with a pointed instrument, with 

 rings made with a stamp, and with impressions of 

 the finger-point and nail around the edge. (Figs. 16, 

 17, 22). This last kind of marking, still practised by 

 pastrycooks, is common both to American and early 

 British and Swiss pottery, in which we can distinctly 

 see rows of impressions of the small finger- point of 

 the lady-artificer with the print of the finger-nail. 

 Fragments of pottery from a long barrow near West 

 Kennet, in Wiltshire, figured by Lubbock, are re- 

 markably near to a common Hochelagan pattern, and 

 finger-prints as an ornament occur on vessels from the 

 pile-villages of the Lake of Zurich. Examples have 



