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VASE FROM ("OLCHESTEE, VERM(JN1 



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A typical examplo, of this ware from Vermont was illustrated aud 

 described by Mr Perkins in the American Naturalist, vol. v, p. 14, 

 and again very iwlly described in the Proceedings of the American 

 Association for 1<S76. The specimen was found at considerable dei)th 

 below the surface of the ground, in the town of Colchester, Vermont, 

 in 1825. It is remarkable for strongly emphasized contours, sym- 

 metry, c-areful finish, and elaborate ornamentation, and is in every 

 way typical of the group. An excellent cut of it appeared in Harper's 



.v?^^ 



Fig. 61 — Vase from a grave (?) iu Colchester, \'erinont. 



Magazine, vol. lxv, p. 254. The illustration here presented, figure 

 64, is from a photograph of a cast of this vase, now preserved in the 

 National Museum. The rim has been partially restored. 



CANADIAN WAKK 



In historic times, and for an unknown period of pre-Columbian 

 time, the Iroquoian ti'ibes occupied a wide l)elt north of the 8t Law- 

 rence river, Lakes Erie and Ontario, and their dominion extended at 

 times over the Lake Huron region, and into the country about Lakes 

 Superior and Michigan. As a matter of course the region is strewn 

 with the frag-ments of their earthenware, which bears throughout the 



