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similar to the small teeth.* A modern artizan would have set 
such tools in a small wheel to facilitate rapidity of work, but we 
have found no proof that such a device was used on the aboriginal 
pottery of New Brunswick. If the tool were a chisel-ended one 
with teeth, the resulting ornament does credit to the infinite 
patience of the potter who decorated the surface of this pot, for 
only a steady hand and great care could have made the separate 
indents so uniform as they are seen to be. On the other hand, 
the several rows of pattern are by no means exactly spaced from 
each other, as some are even twice as far apart as others. 
FIG. 2. — DECORATION ON THE POT. — NATURAL SIZE 
The pattern made by the tool above indicated consists of a 
central depressed furrow, with faint tooth-like impressions or 
dots ; on one side of this (the right hand) *j- they are more distinctly 
like a pair of tooth marks, with a shallow line between the two 
teeth; or the other (the left) there are similar toothed impres- 
sions, but the division of the two teeth is less marked. There 
are thus two little teeth on one side of the median depression, 
and a single long tooth impression (or one obscurely divided in 
two) on the other. When well preserved, the median groove is 
also seen to have faint tooth-like impressions in the bottom. The 
♦See Bulletin Nat. His. Soc. of N. B. No. lit, p. 17. 
fin this figure the pattern is reversed. 
