!(')<'. ABORIGINAL POTTERY OF EASTERN UNITED STATES [eth.ann.20 



exc('i)tionally fortunate in securiii"' several speeiinen.s of these vases 

 ill an excellent state of presei'vation. and descriptions and illustrations 

 have been published in the proceed inos of the Society by Dr Harri- 

 son Wright. I have had seven examples reeno-ra\ed from the Pro- 

 ceeding-s of the society, where they were published liy Dr Wright, 

 along with valuable descriptive matter. 



The tine and unusually large specimen shown in plate cxlv^/ was 

 found among the rocks at the Falls of the AVallenpaupack, Hawley, 

 Wayne county, Penu.sylvania, about forty miles northeast of Wilkes- 

 barre, by Alonzo H. Blish, in 1S4T. The specimen shown in h was 

 found l)y Weston Goss, -July 12, 187!'. under a rock, about one and a 

 quarter miles fi'om the Allen settlement. Lake townshij), Luzerne 

 county. Pennsylvania. This is about fifteen miles west of Wilkes- 

 barre. The striking little vase shown in <■ was taken from an Indian 

 grave on the site of an extensive liurying ground in Plymouth town- 

 .ship, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, about one mile west of Wilkes- 

 barre, and presented to the A^'yoming Historical and Geological Soci- 

 et}' by Mr John Kern. The symmetric pot illustrated in d was found 

 by Asa L. Dana, in the year 1S3G, in a cave in Eaton township, oppo- 

 site Tunkhannock, Wyoming county. Pemisylvania. aliout thirty miles 

 north of ^A'ilkesbarre. 



The neat little vessel shown in plate cxLvicf is described as Tioga 

 vase 1 by Mr Wright, and was obtained from a grave near Athens, 

 Bradford county, Pennsylvania. It had been placed near the head of a 

 body buried there, and had associated with it a "lapstone,"'and a rude 

 arrow point of local type. The mouth of the vessel is elliptical, 4 by 

 3i inches in dimensions, the rim is carried up in rounded projections 

 at opposite ends, and is embellished without by a simply modeled 

 human face, signalized by a headdress or notch(^d fillet, flowing grace- 

 fully to the right and left. 



From another grave at the same place, and similaily placed with 

 respect to the skeleton, we have the exceptionally interesting piece 

 presented in h. It is notable for the abrupt l)att!ement-like elevations 

 placed at opposite sides of the rim, and also for the double zone of dec- 

 oration. Several other vessels in a more or less fragmentary state, 

 and less typical in shape, were recovered from graves at this point. 

 It is interesting to note that these graves are on a tract of laud pur- 

 chased by the Susquehanna company from the Iroquois in 1754." 



The vases shown in e and d are from the general region under con- 

 sideration, but the exact locality is not recorded. 



In plate cxlvii k is given a handsome vessel with very unusual deco- 

 ration. It is from the ^'icinitv of Wilkesbarre and was found by Mr 

 Jacob Cist in the early part of the nini'teenth century. The decora- 

 tive patterns resemble textile patterns, and have been worked out with 



" Wrigltt, Harrison, Report of IIk- special archjeologieal committee on the Athens locality in 

 I'roo. and Coll. of tlie Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, Wilkesbarre. 1886, p. 59. 



