584 PREHISTORIC VILLAGES IN TENNESSEE (ern. ANN. 41 
party which founded the celebrated settlement of Sir Water Raleigh 
at Roanoke Island, made a large number of drawings showing the 
everyday life of the Indians. The originals are now preserved in the 
British Museum. Thomas Hariot was also at Roanoke in 1585. 
Fic. 184.—Restoration of vessel No. 21, mound No. 2 
Hariot was a man of talent and well informed in many departments 
of learning and was an astronomer of some note. White’s drawings 
and Hariot’s report are mines of information in regard to the life of 
the Indians before they were changed by contact with the whites. 
In many cases the 
vessels were support- 
ed over the fire by a 
tripod made of poles 
or by a_ horizontal 
pole which rested in 
the forks of two up- 
right stakes, the ves- 
sels being suspended 
by means of vines, 
cords, or thongs. 
The tripod suspen- 
sion is shown in Fig- 
ure 190; *° the horizontal pole method of suspension is shown in 
Figure 191. This method of suspension was made possible by the 
strong ears or handles or the outcurving of the upper margin. 
Fic, 185.—Restoration of vessel No. 20, mound No. 2 
% Reproduced from Schoolcraft, H. R., Historicaland Statistical Information Respecting the Indian 
Tribes of the United States, pt. 1, Pl. 22. 
