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



It would seem that the Iniilders of the great mound groups about 

 Chillicothe, the enterprising people who gathered stores of shells 

 from the Atlantic, copper from Lake Superior, flint from the lower 

 Ohio valley, and obsidian from the Rocky mountains, Oregon, or 

 Mexico, were identical with or closely related to tribes scattered over 

 a large part of a region including parts of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, 

 Iowa, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Though the pottery of this group 

 of peoples is not nearly so highly developed as is that of the southern 

 mound-builders, as, for example, those of Cahokia, in Illinois, and of 

 Etowah, in Georgia, there can be little doul)t that their general culture 

 was of an order equally advanced. 



With respect to the origin of the great numbers of obsidian imple- 

 ments found in the Hopewell mounds, it may be well to note that 

 there is no trace of Mexican characters in the pottery of these 

 mounds; besides, the general trend of the grouiJ of ware here asso- 



FiR. 75— Vase with convcutiuimlized bird design. Drawings furnislied by Dr H. F. Snyder. 



ciated is from Chillicothe toward the northwest, suggesting the upper 

 Missouri region or the valley of the Columbia as the source of the 

 obsidian. The significance of this observation is emphasized by the 

 discovery of fragments of rouletted ware in the Yellowstone National 

 Park, where great beds of obsidian are found (see page 201). 



CcRD- AND Textile-Marked Ware 



Pottery of typical archaic form is distributed over a vast area in 

 the Northwest. It connects with the corresponding wares of Virginia, 

 Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, and Canada, and its occurrence 

 is very general and uniform over the Great lakes region, the upper 

 Mississippi, the Missouri, and Red river of the North valleys, and 

 it is found with decreasing frequency in the far-away Yellowstone 

 country, and even, in rare cases, in the Green river valley and in Great 

 Salt lake basin. In more or less typical form it extends over into 

 the Middle Mississippi and South Appalachian ceramic provinces. 



