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ABORIGINAL POTTERY OF EASTERN UNITED STATES [eth.ann.20 



the tire, and was kept in pofiition ))y the fuel or other .supports placed 

 about its sides. This is illustrated in plate II, a copy of the origi- 

 nal of plate XV of Hariot's New Found Land of Virginia, now pre- 



Fio. 1— Infiian women Tising eartlK'll ve-ssels in miikiiii^ ca^siiit-. Fnim Lalitau. J. F., Mceurs des 

 sauvages ameriquains. vol. ll. plato v, tiguri? 1. 



served in the British Museum, London. A curious specimen of early 

 colonial illustration, depicting a number of women preparing a cere- 

 monial drink called cassine in eai'then vessels, is reproduced from 

 Lafitau in figure 1. Boiling by means of heated stones cast into the 



