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netting and the like. In this and other shell-heaps of the 
‘Coast, a considerable variety of such articles, in the form of 
needles, fish-hooks, harpoons, etc., occur, and will be fully 
'described and figured in a later article. 
III. IMPLEMENTS OF CLAY OR EARTHENWARE. 
1. Pottery. (Plate II. Figs. 12 and 14). So far as 
•known to the authors, examples of aboriginal pottery have 
heen found at three localities only, viz.: the Maquapit 
Thoroughfare, near Grand Lake, and two stations where shell 
heaps occur upon the coast. They were first brought to our 
notice along the Maquapit Thoroughfare by Mr. J. W. Bailey, 
in 1881, who, in visiting the locality in the course of a canoe 
voyage, and while collecting other Indian remains, was led 
to notice the occurrence of fragments of pottery mingled 
with the latter. In a subsequent visit to the locality by the 
author of this paper, a careful search of both shores of the 
Thoroughfare was made, and in addition to numerous other 
articles, chiefly of stone, many fragments of pottery were ob- 
tained. They were found to be confined to a very limited area, 
and this, too, only accessible at low water, being strewn over the 
surface of the soft muddy banks or imbedded in the latter. 
None of the fragments are sufficiently large to convey any cer- 
tain idea of the form of the vessel from which they were derived, 
but, having undergone apparently but little change, they 
afford a good idea of the general composition of the aboriginal 
earthenware as well as of the modes and patterns of its 
ornamentation. The materials have usually about the texture 
of fine mortar, though some are much finer, and seem to 
consist of a mixture of clay with spangles of black mica and 
pulverized shells. The outer surface, except where indented, 
is usually quite smooth, and covered by a reddish ochreous 
glaze. The indentations are evidently designed for ornament, 
and are arranged in regular lines or rows, commonly straight 
and paiallel, but occasionally curved, intersecting or zig-zag. 
Some consist of a succession of well defined triangular or 
mounded dots, others of continuous lines, the latter occurring 
