78 Pottery Among Savage Races. [ February, 
NOTES ON THE MANUFACTURE OF POTTERY 
AMONG SAVAGE RACES. 
BY CH. FRED. HARTT, A.M., LATE CHIEF OF THE GEOLOGICAL COM- 
MISSION OF BRAZIL. 
N making a critical study of the Indian pottery of Brazil, both 
ancient and modern, I have been led to investigate some facts 
in connection with the methods employed in primitive ceramic 
art, which, up to the present time, have received but little 
attention. 
Some of the more important of the conclusions reached 
by a study of ceramic ornament have been already briefly 
sketched in a paper on “Evolution in Ornament” (Pop. Sc. 
Monthly, January, 1875), in which I have attempted to show 
the origin and function of Decorative Art, and describe some 
of the more important steps in the growth of these ornamental 
borders so common on pottery, and known as frets, scrolls and 
honey-suckle patterns. 
The use of pottery is unknown to many savage Ee as for 
instance to the Esquimaux, the northern Indians of North 
America, the Botocudos and Cayapós of Brazil, the Pampean races, 
the Fuegians, the Veddahs of Ceylon, the Andaman Islanders, 
the Australians, the Maoris and the Polynesian islanders gen- 
erally. In some cases this ignorance of the art may be accounted 
for by the exceedingly low degree of culture of the tribe, as 
among the Botocudos, In Greenland we should scarcely expect 
the manufacture of earthenware to flourish, and its absence among 
the Greenlanders is compatible with a considerable advance in 4 
other arts. 
Among the Algonkin tribes of Canada and the North-eastern 
United States, cooking is often done in vessels of bark, either by — 
placing the vessel over the fire or by putting hot stones in the 
liquid (Relation de la Nouv. France, 1633, p. 4). 
I have seen the Micmac Indians of Nova Scotia make square 
1 The following article, published at the office of the South American Mail, in 
Rio Janeiro, in 1875, assumes an intensified interest from the sad death of its author, — 
even before his scientific career can be said to have fully begun. A few introductory — 
and non-relevant sentences, and long quotations are necessarily omitted.— 0. 
2 Among the Indians included in the great family of the Cayapés by Dr, Couto de le 
Magalhaes, may be mentioned the Gradahis, the Gurutirés of the ee the Caca 
hós of the sertces of Maranhao, and the Cayapós of Matto Grosso. 
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