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expansion is a row of small sloping and elliptic indentations, with 

 nearly horizontal grooves beneath, irregularly arranged. These 

 grooves are not continuous, ending abruptly or tapering to a top, 

 and they have angular divisions. The rim is from the same place 

 as the last. Fig. 26 has a curious and unusual pattern, formed by 

 small triangular indentations arranged in curved lines. The long 

 side of each of these is convex, and the others concave. The inden- 

 tations cause the intermediate lines to seem raised. This is from 

 the Seneca river. 



Fig. 27 is a large and finely ornamented fragment from Oneida 

 lake, evidently part of a very large vessel. The pattern is arranged 

 ill broad converging bands, and is such as might be used in bead- 

 work on the front of a moccasin. Each broad band is edged with 

 lines of circular indentations, and similar diagonal lines appear 

 across from side to side. The intermediate plain spaces are nearly 

 as wide as these decorations. Fig. 28 is a rim of very common 

 design. There is no great expansion above, but half circular 

 notches appear in the edge, and lower down are both horizontal and 

 diagonal grooves. Rims are often thus notched, but in very many 

 ways, sometimes merely with a knife or the finger nail. This piece 

 is from an Onondaga village occupied about 1670. It may be 

 said that while the richer Indians soon afforded brass kettles, poorer 

 families long continued to make the old earthenware. 



Fig. 29 introduces us to a class of ornament quite prevalent from 

 about 1590, or possibly a little earlier, to about 1630, when it com- 

 pletely disappeared. It was the highest achievement of the Iro- 

 quois in decorated ware, nor was it found among all of them, the 

 three Elder Brothers, the Mohawks, Onondagas and Senecas alone 

 using it as far as yet known. None has been reported from the 

 Oneida and Cayuga territory, and but little from the Seneca. Its 

 comparative abundance among the Mohawks and Onondagas lends 

 strength to the traditional early intimate relations between these 

 two nations, through Hiawatha and Dekanawida, both reputedly 

 Onondagas by birth, and Mohawks by adoption. In this ornamen- 

 tation the face or form was molded separately, and then luted on 

 before burning. In consequence the faces are often found de- 



