144 ABORIGINAL POTTERY OF EAoTERN UNITED STATES [eth.ann.20 



Carolina, and eastern Tennessee is pr()l)a))ly theirs, for it is found on 

 the sites known to have been long occupied by them. 



Specimens of modern Cherokee work are shown in plate cxxviil/. 

 Processes of manufacture have been sufficiently dwelt on in the intro- 

 ductory pages. 



In plate cxxix a number of vases from mounds in Caldwell county. 

 North Carolina, are brought together. They display great diversity 

 of characters — eastern, southern, and western — and. at the same time, 

 bear evidence of recentness, and, in cases, of relationship to modern 

 ware. All are tempered with silicious ingredients, and all seem, from 

 the manner of their occurrence, to have belonged to a single com- 

 munity. Two specimens, the right and left in the lower row, are typic- 

 ally western in appearance. In the upper middle vase we see the 

 handles and the side ornament in relief characters rare on the eastern 

 slope but common in Tennessee; the stamped piece on its right affiliates 

 with the southern ware, and the upper left-hand vase is a southern 

 shape having incised designs like those of the Gulf coast. The 

 remaining cup shown illustrates the use of fabrics in the construction 

 and embellishment of pottery. The entire surface is deeply marked 

 with a textile mesh, which at first sight suggests that of the interior 

 of a rude basket, but close examination shows that it is the impres- 

 sion of a pliable fabric of open mesh woven in the twined style. It 

 is seen that there is much lack of continuity in the imprinting, and 

 also that the markings must be the result of wrapping the plastic 

 vessel in fabrics to sustain it, or of the separate applications of a bit 

 of the texture held in the hand or wound about a modeling paddle. 

 This piece is more at home on the Atlantic coast of North Carolina and 

 Virginia than it is in the South or West. From the Jones mound, in 

 the same section, we have a series of vessels of still more modern look. 

 So far as shape and finish go they are decidedly like the modern 

 Catawba ware. 



Over all this Carolina region there are indications of southern as 

 well as western and northern influence, and vessels and sherds are 

 obtained in many places that affiliate with the art of the South. The 

 stamped varieties are intermingled with the other forms in the shell 

 heaps of the Atlantic, on I'iver sites back to the mountains, and. in 

 places, even across to the heads of western-flowing streams. 



There are also specimens of the peculiar florid scroll work of the 

 Culf province, and we may infer that southern tribes made their influ- 

 ence felt as far north as Virginia, beyond which, however, a scroll 

 design, or even a curved line, is practicallj' unknown, and the southern 

 peculiarities of shape are also absent. 



As we pass to the east and north in North Carolina it is found that the 

 southern and western styles of ware gradually give way to the archaic 

 forms and textile decorations of the great Algonquian area. From a 



