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ones in a grave. These showed basket work. While clay pipes 

 were rare on Long Island, the stems were often found. 



West of the Hudson river fragmentary pottery occurs on most 

 important sites. In his Reminiscences of Saratoga, 1880, Mr W. L. 

 Stone spoke of the remains of an old Indian pottery kiln, ' within 

 the cavities of which are yet found sun dried and fire baked vases^ 

 covered with quaint ornamentation.' This was on the south side 

 of Fish creek, but may have been one of the refuse heaps often 

 mistaken for kilns. Pottery is frequent there. 



Dr C. C. Abbott found similar pottery plentiful in many parts of 

 New Jersey, and it seems of general distribution through the north- 

 ern states and much of Canada. 



A fragment of a jar with an open projecting ear or handle has 

 come to our attention in Canada^ and one from the country of the 

 Neutrals has an upward projection on one side of the flat rim_, prob- 

 ably meant for a handle. Vessels with raised and corrugated bars 

 occur there also, identical with New York specimens of the early 

 part of the 17th century. This is Dawson's corn ear pattern. The 

 flaring angle at one end, suggestive of a pitcher, appears on a well 

 ornamented Canadian vessel, 4f inches across, and has its counter- 

 part in New York. So many Hurons were adopted by the Iroquois 

 that these national or local forms in vessels and pipes would be 

 expected here at the period of the Huron downfall^ even as we find 

 them. Simply as members of one great family there would be strong 

 resemblances. 



Thus there is in the Toronto collection a peculiar Huron pipe, 

 with characteristic human head and arms, which is frequent in New 

 York only on Seneca sites, where an entire town was formed of 

 Huron captives. Those with entwining serpents and with a snake- 

 head bowl, are common to both regions. The spiral stem found 

 among the Senecas was occasional among the Hurons, and corded 

 bowls and bird pipes belong to Huron and Iroquois alike. The 

 bold and remarkable pipes of Jefferson county^ with a large human 

 face before and behind the bowl, are also found in Canada. Owl 

 pipes were made by the Petuns and by the Oneidas, and the long 

 stems, with lines and elliptic indentations were everywhere popular. 



