THE ARCHEOLOGICAL HISTORY OF NEW YORK 23I 



making a large rude bead. Seven such beads forming a bracelet 

 about the right arm of the skeleton in pit 75, and four apparently 

 similar ones together with an equal number of copper or brass '' jing- 

 lers " or conical ornaments made in the same way, were found with 

 the bones of an infant in pit 89. 



The salts of this and other copper had caused the preservation in 

 many instances of organic substance, such as the strings of vege- 

 table fiber and sinew upon which the beads had been strung and bits 

 of skin and fur that had lain adjacent to the metal. In the case of 

 the skeleton from pit 78, described before, parts of a fur bag and 

 strips of buckskin legging had been preserved by contact with what 

 seemed to be copper beads. The strips of legging lay along the 

 lower leg bones, the beads being sewn along the outer edge and ter- 

 minated near the foot in lobes or flaps around which the line of 

 beads continued. 



The best discoveries of the expedition were in the line of pottery, 

 of which a collection was obtained comprising a variety and quan- 

 tity of perfect or nearly perfect specimens seldom met with in the 

 east. In size the vessels 

 varied from a tiny jar 

 but 2 inches high (see 

 figure 33) to one holding 

 4 quarts ; in shape, from 

 a mere cup to an ornate 

 "and elaborately modeled 

 jar; and in texture from 

 rude, coarse and crum- 

 bly ware to the thinnest 

 and hardest of which 



the eastern Indian was 



11 i\/r ^ r U.U Fi§- 23 Small pottery bowl " from 



capable. Most of the ^., , , ., J^. 



bilverneels site, h.rie county. 



vessels may be grouped 



into the following typical classes; ra:sed-rim jars, knobbed-rim jars 

 and cups. The first type is of the characteristic Iroquoian shape, 

 with rounded bottoms, constricted necks and raised rims of differ- 

 ing widths and often decorated with combinations of notches and 

 incised lines. Not infrequently the rim has been modeled up into 

 from one to four peaks rising with graceful curves and adding nuich 

 to the beauty of the vessel. Below each peak the incised design is 

 often more elaborate and in a few instances a rudimentary handle 

 or ear had been added, reaching from the rim proper down across 

 the constriction. One jar of the raised-rim class, found in pit 88, is 



