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about half a bushel, I took from a grave in this village. There was 

 another of nearly the same size, but so badly broken that it 

 could not be restored. It was molded in a grass basket, without 

 ornamentation except on its top edge, where there are cord marks, 

 and it is pierced with two holes for suspension.' This is not a com- 

 mon feature. In Southold he found two smaller vessels in a grave, 

 holding a quart and a pint respectively. 



The Rev. O. C. Auringer^ of Troy, writes that he has found no 

 earthenware east of the Hudson,, while it occurs plentifully west of 

 that river. This must not be taken as a general rule^ however, 

 though it certainly is less frequent eastward. In New York it had 

 its highest development among the Iroquois, although they used 

 dishes and vessels of bark and wood, as they still do. Their near 

 kindred^ the Hurons of Canada did the same. Each took his bark 

 dish and wooden spoon when invited to a feast. These articles re- 

 mained long after other changes came. A Huron Christian, named 

 Chihwatenhwa, told his friends in 1639, that they should not reject 

 Christianity because it was brought by the French, ' I ask you, when 

 ar the beginning you saw their axes and kettles, after having recog- 

 nized that they were incomparably better than our axes of stone^ 

 and our vessels of wood and of earth, have you rejected their axes 

 and kettles, because this was a new thing in your land, and it was 

 the custom of France to use these, and not your own? ' 



Something might be said on the aboriginal names of vessels, of 

 whatever material^ and it would prove a suggestive theme. They 

 varied even among the Iroquois, and that in a marked degree. The 

 Oneidas and Mohawks, the most recent comers, differed in their 

 usage from the three western nations, as might have been expected, 

 and yet were so related as to sometimes use their names of kettles. 

 Commonly they did not. In other ways the reciprocal influence of 

 New York and Canada forms a curious study, commerce, migration, 

 peace and war^ all contributing their part. 



The remaining figures of vessels are from those in the state col- 

 lection, which includes some of the most remarkable specimens now 

 to be found. 



