ABORIGINAL POTTERY OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 
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conical or rounded bottom. The ware is of a finer character 
than the larger vessels; the clay contained less tempering, and, 
in some cases, the walls are not more than three sixteenths of an 
inch in thickness. The larger pots were not more than thirteen 
inches in diameter, and about the same in depth. The neck was 
slightly constricted, the body swelling and the base conical. 
1'ypical examples are shown in Plate IV. A great variety of 
clays were used. Some fragments show a bright red, high grade 
clay, but in general it is impure. The amount of tempering 
material used varies greatly, some of the smaller vessels contain 
a medium quantity of fine tempering, enabling the potter to 
make a thin ware with a smooth surface. In many of the 
larger pots only enough clay was employed to bind the sub- 
stances used for tempering. The tempering material was of 
many kinds, including pulverized granite, sand and other mineral 
substances. Some fragments glitter with iron pyrites, others 
show quantities of milky quartz — biolite, feldspar, etc. Some 
of the Bocabec sherds contain fragments of shells. In a number 
of the smaller and finer vessels there are indications which show 
that after the article was modelled, a clay wash or slip has been 
applied ; this would give the potter a smooth surface for decora- 
ting or polishing. Many fragments are so smooth as to leave 
little doubt that the potter had polished the surface prior to 
burning. 
A number of vessels are black inside, not the result of char- 
ring the food, which is common, but a fine smooth black, evenly 
distributed over the interior of the vessel. This blackening was 
evidently done in the process of manufacture. 
In colour, the pottery ranges from a bright terra cotta red 
through various shades of browns and greys. 
It is quite evident the potteryware was not uniformly burned, 
for in the same levels are found fragments of a hard, durable 
ware, and in others it is so friable as to be crushed between the 
thumb and finger. Nearly every pot is ornamented, and no two 
are exactly alike. Usually about two-thirds of the outer surface 
of the vessels are decorated, greater care being taken with the 
