196 ABORIGINAL POTTERY OF EASTERN UNITED STATES [eth. axn-.20 



the vessel was finally secured. The fragments were so soft and easily broken while 

 wet that they would easily crumble if held in the hand, but after being dried they 

 became quite hard. It was quite a difficult task to join the pieces, especially toward 

 the completion, when the restored large pieces had to l)e joined, but it was finally 

 accomplished. The vessel is 13 inches in height and 4 feet in circumference. The 

 weight is 10 pounds. The top opening is oblong, 10 inches the narrow way and 12 

 inches the wide way. Two i)airs,of holes have been bored in one side, probably for 

 mserting cords for the purj)ose of checking an incipient crack. The ornamentation 

 is not as elaborate as on some pieces I have found here, but still is very fair. A 

 skeleton was buried with it, liut nothing could be saved of this except some frag- 

 ments of the skull. 



The smaller vessel shown in this plate is about the size of an ordi- 

 nary coffee cup, and is similar in character to the large piece. 



The pottery of this site presents pi-onounced Algonquian characters, 

 and if the sherds were to lie intermingled with those of Atlantic coast 

 sites it would be difficult to separate them. Piute clxxia' contains 

 fragments of rims of ordinary vessels. It will be seen that one of 

 these has a sharp projection, such as is frequently seen in the lro(juoian 

 ware of New York, and it is further noted that the mouth of the 



Fig. 7(i— Sections of rims of \ uses from u village site at Two Rivers, Wisconsin 



A'essel was squarish, emphasizing the likeness to the Iroquoian work. 

 It is not at all impossible that the intiuence of the powerful tribes of 

 New York extended to the we.stern shores of the Great lakes, but since 

 this angular form is undouI>tedly due to the influence of bark ve.ssels, 

 it may have had an independent origin in the West. 



The paste of this pottery is not very fine grained, and it is tempered 

 with silicious particles, .■sometimes rather coarse. The pot or caldron 

 presents \ariants in form extending from deep bowl shapes, on the one 

 hand, to rather tal 1 jar shapes, on the other. In size the specimens vary 

 from minute cups to vessels IS or 20 inches in diameter. The liase is 

 rounded or conic, tlie shoulder is often slightly angular, and the neck 

 is more or less sharply constricted. The rim is generally turned out- 

 ward. The lip is much varied in form and embellishment. Profiles 

 are shown in figure 76. 



The surface is generally well covered with texturing and decora- 

 tion. The body has been finished by paddling or rocking with textile- 

 covered tools, or l)y cord-wrapped roulettes — usually, 1 believe, the 



