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work near the upper part of the pot. The top of the rim is 
nearly always ornamented, and the inside usually shows an 
imprint near the top. 
The ornamentation is archaic, and consists of combinations 
of straight lines and simple indented patterns. True curves are 
wanting, the nearest approach to a curve being made in rocking 
a wide indenting tool over the surface, and in combination of two 
or more straight lines placed at a slight angle one to the other, 
as shown in some of the fragments illustrated. 
Many of the designs resemble the spruce root stitching and 
porcupine quill ornamentation of the birch bark vessels, and it 
may be the designs on the pottery were suggested by those on 
the older bark vessels which no doubt long antedated potteryware 
among the tribes inhabiting this region. With few exceptions, 
the greater part of the decorations were made by using an indent- 
ing tool rocked over the surface ; this implement was usually 
toothed, but sometimes wavy or zig-zag, and of various sizes. 
One of the larger was over two inches in width, while others 
were only about a quarter of an inch in width. On nearly every 
vessel the stylus also was used. 
The textile designs, so common in many Algonquin areas, 
are entirely absent. Only two small fragments show markings 
— which are probably cord patterns. The indenting implement 
in a variety of forms, used for rocking over the surface, or for 
stamping or indenting, the stylus, and possibly a cord, are pro- 
bably the only implements used in ornamenting the potteryware 
examined by the author. 
Fig. i. From Princess Park. — The entire outer surface has 
been rocked over with a toothed tool, after which the design was 
completed with the stylus. This is one of a few designs in which 
it would appear that curved lines were used, but an examination 
of the fragment shows the design to have been produced by a 
series of incised marks and straight lines. A line has been 
drawn on the clay, one inch from and parallel with the rim. In 
this line a series of oblong dots have been imprinted. Near the 
rim is another series of elongated marks, and between the two 
