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thought they were ornamented with ' a pointed instrument, with 

 rings made with a stamp, and with impressions of the finger point 

 and nail around the edge.' He points to the practice of pastry- 

 cooks for modern examples, and adds that ' Fragments of pottery 

 from a long barrow near West Kenneth in Wiltshire, figured by 

 Lubbock, are remarkably near to a common Hochelagan pattern^ 

 and finger prints as an ornament occur on vessels from the pile 

 villages of the Lake of Zurich.' A raised pattern is occasional in 

 Canada and New York, and of this he says, ' One evidently repre- 

 sents the rows of grain in the ear of Indian corn, and may be called 

 the corn ear pattern.' A second class he called ' the basket and bead 

 pattern,' which he thought imitated woven baskets ornamented with 

 beads. In this he distinguished the .' chevron and saltier patterns.' 

 A rude basket pattern appears in some rude early British pottery. 

 To these he added a third pattern of network, found on the round 

 bottoms of some large vessels. This sometimes appears on the 

 sides of New York pottery, and may come from matting. 



In a letter to the writer regarding the human faces on the outside 

 of some New York pottery, he said that nothing of the kind 

 appeared on Hochelagan vessels, ' unless three rings, two above and 

 one below, may be taken to represent eyes and a mouth. Perfor- 

 ated clay disks are common.' The pipes and vessels which he 

 figured in Fossil men are like those of New York^ and detached heads 

 occur here sparingly,, as well as the three rings. ' 



A few years since Dr D. S. Kellogg, of Plattsburg, had obtained 

 parts of rims of over 800 different vessels along the west shore of 

 Lake Champlain. These rims were circular or elliptic, and 

 often indented or scalloped along the edge. These vessels were 

 often ornamented from the top nearly to the bottom, and some- 

 times on the inner surface. The bottoms were plain and never flat, 

 and they varied in capacity from 3 to 8 quarts. None had any 

 representations of animals, or of the human face or figure. In his 

 History of St Lawrence county, Mr Hough said that on some frag- 

 ments of pottery a rude resemblance to a human face is seen. He 

 may have referred to the three rings or indentations found else- 

 where near the St Lawrence river. An example of this comes from 

 Springfield, Ohio, closely resembling New York pottery. 



