EARTHENWARE OF THE NEW YORK ABORIGINES I3S 



tbey retained their old homes^ while the Mohawks, Oneidas and 

 Onondagas began a new life amid new scenes. 



The state collection has a very good representation of pipes of 

 clay and stone from Jefferson county^ and there are several de- 

 tached heads from the former^ showing that one style, prevalent 

 in other places in the 17th century, was also made there, and prob- 

 ably not long before. The fine owl's head bowl appears, and the 

 trumpet pipe in a simple character. Two raised angles on the 

 rim of some bowls, connect this with Onondaga county. Some mas- 

 sive trumpet pipes, with an abruptly projecting rim^ differ from most 

 of this type. The open-mouthed serpent forms a conspicuous and 

 characteristic bowl^ and the corded bowl has a less typical repre- 

 sentation. One fine clay pipe has a human face turned from the 

 smoker. In general^ however, this early feature is preserved by 

 placing such faces on the back of the bowl; and where these are 

 human faces they are usually large and grotesque. There are sev- 

 eral fine examples of these, and they are found in other collections. 

 They might be called the typical pipe of that extensive field. 



Mr A. E. Douglass did not classify his pipes by material, but out 

 of 375 he had 43 from New York. Ohio came next with 40, and 

 then Tennessee with 39. He gave no list of earthenware. 



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Excepting tobacco pipes and vessels of clay, the articles of earth- 

 enware made by the New York Indians wene very few in number, 

 and some of these were adaptations from those which had been 

 broken. Most of the small disks or counters were chipped out of 

 potsherds, and some detached heads may have come from broken 

 pipes. This is not always the case, but the number of articles 

 showing original design is so far surprisingly small. 



Fig. 222 shows the largest clay disk as yet reported from New 

 York, and it is in the state collection as one of the articles in Mr 

 Twining's fine array of relics from Jefferson county, where most 

 things are of prehistoric date. A large fragment of pottery has 

 been cut into an irregularly circular form, and perforated near the 

 center. From this perforation 11 incisions radiate tioi the outer 

 edge. The secondary work is clearly seen, as it is in simpler ex- 



