l.\l)IA\S or M.WHATT.W ISLAM) 



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1K)IIIh1i'(1 shell. Sherds showiiiii leinpciiiiu; hy lihci- nv sonic olhci- siih- 

 staiH'c^ that disappcaicd in filing arc foiiiid laicly. Wlicn vessels were 

 crack(Hl or broken, a seiies of lioles was bored opposite each other on 

 eitluM- sid(> of th(^ break and tlu^ i)ai'ts laced (()<!;clhei\ rciidcrin<!; the \-essel 

 cai)able of storinii" di y objects, at least. 



POTTERY FORMS OF THE COASTAL ALGONKIN 



Life forms are exceedingly rare in local ceramic art. From Alan- 

 hattan Island and Van Cortlandt Park, there come a nmnber of speci- 

 mens sho^nng incised human (?) faces. This is not an uncommon form 

 on Iroquoian sites in Central and Western New York. On the Bowman's 

 Brook site at Mariner's Harbor, Staten Island, fragments of a typicall}' 

 Algonkian pot were obtained which l^ore at intervals rude raised faces. 

 With the sole exception of a rather well-modeled clay face, apparently 

 broken from the bowl of a pipe found at Port Wasliington, Long Island, 



