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usual cross bars. There are no arms, and the legs are gone, but 

 seem to have been carried out from the base of the rim, leaving an 

 opening between them and the vessel. There are notches at the 

 end of the projection, and grooved lines above. The nose is raised, 

 and the eyes are small rings. Altogether it is an interesting frag^ 

 ment. I .. . [ 



Fig. 42 shows part of a rim from the double walled fort south- 

 east of Baldwinsville. Deep notches are cut in the edge of the 

 rim, which is ornamented above and within. Fig. 43 is a rim from 

 Rice's woods^ a few miles north of Palatine Bridge, which is remark- 

 able for the very great projection of the upper and ornamented part. 

 It is probable that the plain bowl gradually curved out beyond 

 this, as in other examples. A deep undulating groove runs from 

 top to bottom at the angle^ which is raised. Notches appear along 

 the basal edge of the projection^ with grooves above, and there is a 

 line of pyriform indentations below the rim. The inside is orna- 

 mented. Pottery as bold in design as this does not appear farther 

 west. 



Fig. 44 is from the same spot, and thus far is unique. It is a 

 very prominent human head on the boldly projecting angle of an 

 earthen vessel, which seems to have been much ornamented. The 

 cross bars on the retreating angle beneath are more ornamental than 

 usual, and the broad face, with its wide and open mouth, is more 

 suggestive of an ape than a man when seen full in front. Above 

 the head it is broken, but may not have risen much higher. This 

 was a recent village site where European articles are frequent. The 

 lateral grooves again suggest plumes, and this feature is hardly rare 

 in these relics of the Mohawks, who may have had it from the Dutch. 



Fig. 45 is from the double walled fort near Baldwinsville. The 

 horizontal grooves had their edges neatly smoothed, while the hol- 

 low part is divided by small cross indentations. With this was a 

 fragment having a line of large elliptic indentations, above which 

 are diagonal rows of fine lines placed side by side. 



Small vessels are sometimes found which were apparently toys. 

 Fig. 46 is a rude example from Brewerton, which is nearly oval, 

 yet somewhat angular. The depth is if, and the diameter i^^ 



