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



Maine, in a treaty with tlie whites, claimed tlie land as far westward 

 as the Connecticut river, which they spoke of as the ancient boundary 

 between their people and the Inxjuois." It is theretV ;-e to be expected 

 that now and then remains or relics of the latter people will be found 

 scattered over the New England states. 



A number of earthen vessels approaching- the Iroquoian type were 

 recovered by Professor Putnam from a grave in Winthrop, Massa- 

 chusetts (plate CLx). They were, accompanied by ai'ticles of European 

 manufactui-e. leaving- no doubt that pottery was in use after the coming- 

 of the whites. During- early colonial times this region was occupied ])y 

 Algonquian tribes, and, though the Iroquois are known to have visited 

 the vicinity of Boston })ay, the question maj^ be raised as to whether 

 this variety of ware was not, in this section, common to the two stocks 

 of people. Its presence here is perhaps more reasonably accounted for 

 by supposing- that the Algonquians were subject to Iroquois influence, 

 possibly obtaining- the art of working clay from them. The larger 

 piece (c) has the pronounced overhanging collar, embellished with a 

 frieze of incised lines grouped in usual ways, the shoulder being encir- 

 cled by a line of indenttitions. The small cup {//) is typically Algon- 

 quian, while the fragment («) presents Iroquoian characters repeated 

 in vases from Ipswich, part of which were obtained by Professor Baird 

 from shell l)anks. Good specimens of the same \ariety of ware are pre- 

 served in the museums at Salem, and an interesting .specimen, belong- 

 ing to the same subgroup, was found by Professor Wyman in a grave 

 at Hingham, Massachusetts. A rudely incised twined meander is the 

 most remarkable feature of this vessel; it is the only example of its 

 cla.ss, so far as my observation extends, found in New England. The 

 treatment of the rim and the lower margin of the frieze, as well as 

 the pointed base, is Iroquoian rather than Algonquian. In an inter- 

 esting review of the antiquities of Connecticut, Mr James Shepherd 

 illustrates a fragmentai-}' vase from that state.'' The restoration is 

 possibly somewhat inaccurate as to outline, for, judging by the many 

 other specimens of its class, the body should be much longer and 

 the base somewhat more conic. The form as restored is not so much 

 Iroquoian as Algonquian save in its rolled rim, })ut the zone of incised 

 ornament is apparently Iroquoian. 



The discovery of typical Iroquoian ware in the region of Lakes 

 George and Cbamplain is to be expected, for the dominion of the east- 

 ern tribes of that stock certainly extended over much of this country 

 at one time or other. The collections and writings of Professor 

 George H. Perkins, of Burlington, bear ample testimony to this.'" 



nVaudreuil, Miirquis de, letter of April 21, 172n, in Doc. Col. Hist, of New York. Albany, 18.5.^, vol. 

 LX, p. 943. 



& Shepherd, James, New England Magazine. December, 1893. 



'■ Perkins, George H., The calumet in the Champlain valley, in Pop. Sci. Monthly, New York, 1893, 

 Tol. XLiv. p. -23.8: some relics of the Indians of Vermont, in Amer. Nat., Salem, 1871, vol, v, p }-l; on 

 Bome fragments of pottery from Vermont, in Proc. Am. Ass. Adv. Sci., 1877, p. 32.^. 



