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covered from its almost flat bottom to the edge of the rim with 

 incised patterns ; in others the neck or constricted part is very long 

 and so on through many variations. The knobbed-rim jars were in 

 most respects similar to those of the preceding class, but the rims, 

 instead of being incised or raised in peaks, are in the form of a 

 regular cog of lateral knobs or points, sometimes merely deeply 

 indenting the lower edge of the rim, sometimes covering all of it 

 with large and prominent knobs. Cups were rare, the few found 

 being merely small flaring vessels without constriction and almost 

 without ornament. 



Fig. 34 Pottery vessel from the Silverheels site. This speci- 

 men more closely approached the Mohawk valley Iroquoian type 

 than anv other found in the burials. x;/5. 



]\lost of the jars were intended, without doubt, for cooking pur- 

 poses and were used on the Are as is sh()wn by the smoked condition 

 of many of them and the flndnig of a cracked pottery jar in pit 35, 

 with charred grease or soot in the crack. The mending of pottery 



