40 Loo»t is and Young — Shell Heaps of Maine. 



obliquely ; then below this a broad belt of the same indenta- 

 tions put on horizontally to make a banded effect ; and finally 

 a lower band where the same figure is again faintly impressed 

 obliquely. The Sawyer's Island pot was decorated in the same 

 manner, the teeth of the comb-like tool being coarser, and in 

 this case the rim has a vertical series, then a broad band put 

 on horizontally, and finally below another series of vertical 

 impressions. In some cases the end of the paddle or comb 

 was notched or cut into teeth of irregular size, so that a more 

 varied pattern resulted, and the most elaborate fragments have 

 a pattern made by using more than one tool. See fig. 13. In 

 a very few cases a disc attached to a handle* was used, which is 



Fig. 15. Fig. 16. 



Fig. 15.— Pottery object of unknown use, but incised. Unique in the 

 heaps. 1/2 natural size. 



Fig. 16. — Stem of an ornamentated pipe found on Sawyer's Island. 

 1/2 natural size. 



a more highly developed manner of decoration. When the 

 disc was rotated back and forth on the clay, such a pattern 

 as that in fig. 14 resulted. If the rim of the disc was notched 

 the pattern was correspondingly more elaborate. This manner 

 of working was, however, very rare, not occurring more than 

 three times in over fifty finds. 



The only case of an incised pattern was on a single bit of 

 baked clay, not formed to any discovered use, and which may 

 have been a whim or an ornament. Fig. 15 shows the find, 

 and we feel that it was brought into the region, Jiaving been 

 made elsewhere. Except for this, incised work is entirely 

 lacking. The patterns made with the more or less worked 

 stick are characteristic of the Algonquins, not only of this 

 district but also on the Atlantic coast further to the south and 

 in the middle west. Incised pottery is characteristic of the 

 Iroquois and their influence is felt in the pottery of the 

 adjacent tribes as is seen in the usual pottery found in Massa- 

 chusetts and Connecticut, but the Shell-heap Indians do not 

 seem to have been influenced in the least by the Iroquois. It 

 is true that the work of the Maine Indians is of the crudest 

 grade of impressed ornamentation, and suggests that these 



* For methods of putting on ornamentation see Holmes, Aboriginal Pot- 

 tery of Eastern United States, 20th Ann. Report Bureau of Emer. Ethnology, 

 1899, p. 76. 



