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torn. With this may be compared Mr F. H. Cushing's figure of 

 an Iroquois vessel in fig. 127^ from a report of the Bureau of 

 ethnology. He supposed this form was founded on an earlier ves- 

 sel of birch bark. If the figure is correct, the pointed base is abnor- 

 mal rather than typical. All Iroquois vessels here represented have 

 a broadly rounded base. Fig. 129 was found with 126, and is intro; 

 duced for comparison. It shows the deep and projecting rim, as 

 well as ornaments below this. 



Excepting this, fig. 128 to 137 inclusive, are from West Bloo^m- 

 field, N. Y.^ with one exception, and belong to Mr Leo Walter 

 Hildburgh, of New York city, who kindly presented photographs 

 of all. Most vessels found there are of the historic period, and it has 

 furnished many. Mr Hildburgh says that these are ' from graves 

 containing articles of Indian and European manufacture.' Fig. 128 

 has a notched rim^ and the greatest diameter is about i foot. 

 Fig. 130 has a sloping rim, with widely separated points. The 

 diameter is the same as the last. Fig. 131 is a small, plain and 

 shallow vessel^ but little over 6 inches across. Fig. 132 is from 

 Lima, N. Y., and has a broad rim with deep basal notches. Its 

 diameter is 10^ inches. Fig. 133 has a deep and notched rim. This 

 and the next have a diameter of 8^ inches. Fig. 135 is a typical 

 example of the highly ornamented early form, with a broad and 

 angular rim. It is a foot in diameter. Fig. 136 is rather rude in 

 every way, but has a deeply notched rim. The diameter is 8 inches. 

 Fig. 137 is one of the rarest forms of earthen vessels, and it is ot 

 unusual size for the kind being on the same scale with all those 

 furnished by Mr Hildburgh. It is a double pot, ornamented, but 

 having one bowl broken. 



To this review of early New York pottery a few notes may be 

 added. It will be observed that the vessels found at the Harlem 

 river are of large size, but this is hardly a rare circumstance. They 

 are partly restorations, and the true form is in question still. Man};- 

 Iroquois vessels must have been quite as large. At the Forks of 

 Fish creek, Annsville, Oneida county, vessels are said to have 

 been found from 2 to 3 feet in diameter. Mr W. W. Tooker writes 

 of one found by him in Sag Harbor, ' The large vessel, which holds 



