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tached, or the impressions of the Hmbs remain when these are gone. 

 The Onondagas reached a higher development in this art than the 

 Mohawks^ and many faces have such an individual character, as 

 regards age and expression, that they seem portraits. Two of 

 those grouped here have this individuality. They were often, but 

 not always^ placed at an elevated angle of the rim. This is the case 

 in this figure, where a grotesque face appears just below the 

 notched angle. There is a suggestion here of a curved neck, pos- 

 sibly united to a body, but the face may have appeared alone. The 

 fragment is from a stockade in southern Onondaga^ occupied per- 

 haps about 1620. 



Fig. 30 is another fine face from the same site, a little south of 

 Delphi. It is surrounded with diagonal grooves on the surface of 

 the vessel, and has marked individuality. Fig. 31 is another face 

 of characteristic Indian type, appearing on a plain surface. It is 

 from a stockade west of Cazenovia, occupied by the Onondagas 

 about 1600. These large faces are frequent there, and on neigh- 

 boring sites. 



Fig. 32 is a fine rim of unusual character from the site south of 

 Delphi. There are three neat horizontal grooves above the usual 

 projection, which is formed by deep and graceful curves^ edged on 

 the concave part with large elHptic indentations. The design is 

 bold and well carried out. Fig. 33 is from a stockade near Bald- 

 winsville. The figure is simple, pretty and unusual. A row of 

 small circular indentations has rows of elliptic and pointed vertical 

 indentations above and below. Fig. 34 is a rim from a stockade 

 on the south side of Seneca river. The expanded top is deeply 

 notched on both sides, and is somewhat undulated above. Fig. 35 

 comes from a stockade opposite the last, and north of the river. 

 It is a plain ftm, coming to a point above, ornamented just below 

 the top with a row of narrow and diagonal ellipses, beneath which 

 are narrow, irregular and interrupted grooves. 



Fig. 36 is part of a rim found east of Wagner's hollow, Mont- 

 gomery county. The narrow top is undulating, and the sharp 

 grooves are crossed by a horizontal groove near the top. The 

 angular ends of the grooves are sharply defined. The fragment 



