188 ABORIGINAL POTTERY OF EASTERN UNITED STATES fETH.ANN.20 



Oinahas, distiuctly affirms that the art was pra(;ticed by his people 

 as late as IS-tO, and the okl lodge rings found on their village sites 

 arc well supplied with the usual cord-decorated and textured ware 

 chai'a<'t(M'istic of the ^Missouri valley. 



Rorn.ETTKl) AM) STAMrED Wakk 



A large part of the ware of the Northwest may be brought together 

 in a single group, which may be called, from its most pronounced 

 technic peculiarity, the rouh^tted group, but it is impossible to define 

 with any degree of precision its geogi'aphic limits. The localities rep- 

 resented in the collections examined by me are indicated in a somewhat 

 general way on the map accompanying a previous section (plate iv). 

 The tribes by whom it was manufactured have evidently, at one time 

 or anothei', occupied a large jiart of the Mississippi basin north of the 

 mouth of the Missouri river. Parts of the states of Iowa, Wisconsin, 

 Michigan, Illinois, Indiana. :ind Ohio are covered by this or by closely 

 related ceramic groups, and traces of some of its peculiar characters 

 are discovered far beyond these limits — as, for example, in New Jersey 

 and ^Vlaine. There is some lack of uniformity within the group, and 

 in time several suligroups may lie distinguished, but the persistence 

 of certain peculiar features in the widely separated localities goes far 

 toward demonstrating a general unity. 



The clay used exhibits no unusual features, but the tempering is 

 always silicious and often coarse. The vessels have a narrow range 

 of form and are such as were connuonly devoted to culinary uses. 

 There is, however, considerable diversity of detail, as will be seen by 

 reference to the illustrations. 



The decoration of this ware presents some striking features, the use 

 of the roulette and the patterned i)unch stamp being especially char- 

 acteristic. Coi'd-covercd modeling tools were used in finishing the 

 undeco rated portions of the vessels, and pointed tools of various kinds 

 were used in incising, trailing, and indenting patterns, as they were 

 in other sections. In one locality a peculiar variety of patterned 

 stamp was employed. Although the stamps were not (|uite the same as 

 those used in the South Apiialachian region, and were applied in a dif- 

 ferent way. taking the foi'm of punches rather than of paddles, their 

 use suggests a relationship between the art of the two sections, and this 

 is enforced by the facts that features of ornamentation, shape, and 

 material show unusually close analogies. Specimens of this class wei'c 

 obtained from mounds near Nai)les. Illinois, by ]Mr .b>hn (i. Henderson 

 and .Air M. Tandy." 



In plates CLXVl and (■lx\ ii are leprodueed a number of sherds 

 illu-itrating the manner of applying the stamps, which nmst have been 



" Hencierson. John G.. Abonijiiml Remains nonr Xaplos. Ulinois, in Smillisdnion Report for 1882, 

 Wasliinglon, ISSI p. 086. 



