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Virginia, 28; The True Travels, &c., of John Smith, p. 131 ; 
Strachey, The Hist. of Trav. into Virginia Britannica, p. 112). 
On the Georgia Indians see Bartram, Travels, Lond., 1792, 511 ; 
On the Iroquois, Schoolcraft, iii, 81, and Notes on the Iroquois 
in Squier & Davis, 223; On the Hurons, Parkman’s “ Jesuits in 
America,” p. Xxx. 
An account of the pottery manufactured among the Indians 
west of the Mississippi river is quoted from Hunter's “ Manners 
and Customs of several Indian tribes west of the Mississippi ” 
in Prof. Rau’s article on Indian pottery in the Smithsonian 
Report, 1866, p. 351. 
Among the Mandans, women were, as elsewhere, the makers 
of earthenware (Catlin, Manners and Customs, Letter 16). 
Among the Micmac Indians of Acadia, the birch-bark vessebs 
in which cooking is performed, are made by the women, and we 
have already seen how she prepares, among the Esquimaux, the 
stone lamps and cooking vessels. , 
Jewett thinks that the Celtic funerary urns were formed “ most 
probably, judging from the delicacy of the touch, and from the 
impress of the fingers which occasionally remain, by the females 
of the tribes ” (Grave Mounds and their contents, 83-85). 
At Ordezan, near Bagniére de Bigorre, pottery similar to that 
found in caves is still manufactured by women. Tylor speaks of 
a set of hand-made pottery found in use by an old woman in the 
Hebrides. 
The Kaffir women not only cook, but they make the pots they 
use, the clay for the purpose being obtained from ant-hills. 
They also make baskets that will hold milk or beer (Wood’s 
Unciv. Races, 77, 143 ; Campbell, Travels in So. Africa, 523). 
Burton says, concerning the manufacture of earthenware in 
Eastern Africa, “ The figuline, a grayish brown clay, is procured 
from river beds, or is dug up in the country; it is subjected to 
the preliminary operation of pounding, rubbing dry on a stone, 
pulverizing and purifying from stones and pebbles. It is then 
worked into athick mass with water, and the potter fashions it with 
the hand, first shaping the mouth; he adds an inch to it when 
dry, hardens it in the sun, makes another addition, and thus pro- 
ceeds until it is finished. Lines and other ornaments having been 
traced, the pots are baked in piles of seven or eight, by burning 
grass, Usually the color becomes lamp-black. In Usagara, how- 
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