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EXPLANATION OF DIAGRAM. 
Anas., anastomotic ramus from first myelic nerve ; this is the disputed 
origin of the N. cervico-hypoglossus. Ang., the angle where the N. hyp- 
oglossus bends around the A. occipitalis. Ca., caudal ramus. Ce, 
cephalic ramus. Communicans, a myelic accession, the communicans 
noni. Crv., myelic nerves. Gen-Hyoid, the genio-hyoid muscle. Ge- 
Hy-Gl., the genio-hyo-glossal muscle. Hyoglossus, the hyo-glossal mus- 
cle. Inf., the ramus to the G. inferius of the N. vagus. Lingualis, the 
lingual nerve of the mandibular division of the N. trigeminus. Om-Hy., 
the M. omo-hyoideus. Pl. car., anastomotic filament to the carotid plexus. 
Pl. gang., the plexus gangliformis. Sty-Gloss., the stylo- glossus muscle. 
St-Thy., the M. sterno-thyroideus. Thy-Hy., the M. thyro-hyoideus. 
Aboriginal Pottery of the Middle Atlantic States. 
By Francis Jordan, Jr. 
(Read before the American Philosophical Society, March 2, 1888.) 
In the whole range of archeology there are few subjects deserving of 
more thoughtful consideration, or that possess so many instructive and 
entertaining features as the study of ceramic art as practiced by primitive 
man. Its development is contemporary with the progress of civilization, 
and dates from the earliest period of antiquity, beginning with the manufac- 
ture of earthenware of the rudest description, exclusively for culinary pur- 
poses, from materials that were too obvious even for the semi-barbarian to 
overlook. The brief paper I have the pleasure of offering for your consid- 
eration is restricted to a discussion of but one of the many branches of this 
interesting study, namely, the characteristic features of the prehistoric 
pottery of the Middle Atlantic States, of North America, and the condi- 
tions under which it has been recovered. 
In its fabrication as in all the departments of aboriginal domestic labor, 
the work was performed by women, who gave to these rude vessels what- 
ever claim to artistic merit they possess, of which the relics of the mound- 
builders of the Mississippi valley furnish the best examples. 
In form, in decoration, and in the use of pigments, and in their con- 
struction, these specimens rank with the early productions of the potters 
of the old world, a superiority that was doubtless the result of contact 
with the advanced civilization of the Pacific Coast, and a reproduction of 
its ceramic forms. The pottery of the Atlantic seaboard is more primitive 
in its character, and denotes, both in design and decoration, a more remote 
antiquity, a claim, however, that cannot be established if we accept Indian 
tradition as authority for the belief that the influx of emigration was from 
