176 AKORIGINAL POTTERY OF EASTERN UNITED STATES [eth.akn.20 



roughly finislu'd. The polishing tool waw used only to give sufficient 

 tinisli to enable the decorator eftectivel^y to use his stj'lus or roulette. 

 Details of decoi'ation and finish may better be given when the varieties 

 of ware are presented. The presence here and there of peculiar and 

 apparejitly exotic tj'pes of decoration is quite puzzling; for example, 

 in Maine and New Jersey are encountered occasional examples of 

 roulettiug exactly duplicating the style so common on the upper Mis- 

 sissippi. The peoples probably belonged to the same stock, however, 

 and it is not at all improbable that migrations took place between 

 these widely separated regions. The reticulated stamp, characteristic 

 of Florida, appears now and then in Pennsyhania and New .Tersey. 



No attempt will be made in this place to cover the coastal districts 

 in detail, and attention will ])e confined to a few localities chosen to 

 represent the ceramic remains of the Northeast. The area considered 

 in this section is included, in a general way, on the map, plate iv, 

 accompanying a preceding section. 



The Delaware valley is separated from that of the Susquehanna and 

 Chesapeake l)y onlj' a few miles of lowland, and it is not .surprising 

 that the forms of ware found on the village sites of the districts dupli- 

 cate one another very closely. There is apparently no decided break 

 in the characteristics of the art from Norfolk to New York bay. 



Delaware Valley Ware 



By far the most prolific of the potter}' -producing sites in the Dela- 

 ware valley is that on Pocatquissing creek, 3 miles south of Trenton, 

 so thoroughly explored by Mr Ernest Volk for the Columbian Expo- 

 sition. Here was found the largest, the best preserved, and the most 

 highly elaborated pottery j^et collected on the coast north of the 

 Savannah river. Its relationship with the Algonquian wares of the 

 Chesapeake and Yadkin is, however, very close, and is especially so 

 in several minute details of form, elaboration, and decoration, thus 

 enforcing the idea that the peoples wei"e the same, or were very inti- 

 mately related or associated. The forms and ornaments are somewhat 

 more elaborate and graceful than those in the Chesapeake ware, and 

 in .some features it differs decidedly from that ware. Among these 

 features of ludikeness ma\' ])e mentioned the occasional much elonga- 

 tion of the bodies, the decided s(juaring off of the i-im, the use of 

 the roulette in decoration, and the addition of a line of indentations 

 encircling the body low down and separated entirely from the main 

 zone of embellishment about the neck. 



Characteristic examples of the better ware of this locality are given 

 in plate clviii. Large fragments appear in a and h, and the general 

 shape is indicated in c. The diameter is 12 inches, and the height was 

 probably a little more than this. The finish is excellent. The rim 

 is flattened above and indented. The general surface is smooth, and 



