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POTTERY. 



" In its imperfection of manufacture and in its crude 

 ornamentation the pottery gathered from the mounds 

 is related to that of the aboriginal people in the north- 

 ern Mississipjii valley.* From the tempering it appears 





Fig. 10. A piece of a broken ornamented vessel. 

 Slightly reduced. 



that the potters were familiar with the use of ground 

 shells, which is found in the southern pottery, as well 

 as with the use of sand, which was commonly mixed 

 with the clay for the same purpose among the prehis- 

 toric people in the north.* 



* See Ancient Pottery etc., Holmes, Rept. Bur. of Ethn., Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution, Wash., D. C, 1882—1883, p. 426. 



