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The suggestion made by Loomis and Young, in speaking of pottery 
from the shell-heaps of Maine 1 , that stone-tempered ware was probably 
made in the interior of the country and brought to the coast, may be correct, 
although here some of the tempering ingredients occur naturally in the 
vicinity of the Eisenhauer shell-heap. All the pottery with shell temper- 
ing found in this shell-heap may have been manufactured on the spot. 
It would be interesting to know if any shell-tempered ware is found on 
sites in the interior. 
One hundred and thirty-eight fragments, or more than 18 per cent 
of the whole number found, belonging to about seventy-nine different 
vessels, are fragments of pots made by coiling. In the rest of the fragments 
the method of making is not so clearly shown. Some of the fragments 
that do not show coiling possibly belong to vessels that were modelled 
from a mass. In fifty-nine, or 43 per cent, of the fragments of coiled ware 
the tempering material is shell; in thirty-four, or 25 per cent, stone; and 
in forty-five, or more than 32 per cent, the tempering is not recognizable. 
The largest proportion of coiled ware, therefore, contains shell or no recog- 
nizable tempering at all, which suggests that it was perhaps more difficult 
to form stone-tempered clay into rolls or strips suitable for coiling. The 
broken edges of the fragments of coiled ware, which follow the lines of weld- 
ing of the coils, are either straight, slanting (Plate XXV, figure 3), convex 
(Plate XXV, figure 4), or concave. Some of the strips or coils were from 
about ^ inch to 1^ inches wide (Plate XXV, figures 5, 6). 
The inside surface of two hundred and sixty-one fragments, or a 
little more than 35 per cent of all the fragments found, and probably 
representing about ninety-eight different pots, are scarified or scratched 
with some rough surfaced or toothed tool, or perhaps a twig brush (Plate 
XXV, figures 3, 6). This was probably a welding process. Seven of 
these scarified pieces have shell tempering, which is only about 3 per cent 
of the total number of fragments with shell tempering. One hundred 
and ninety-five pieces have stone tempering, which is more than 65 per 
cent of the total number of fragments with this kind of tempering, and 
about 75 per cent of the total number of scarified fragments. Fifty -nine 
other fragments have no recognizable tempering, which is about 35 per 
cent of the total number of fragments of untempered ware. It will be 
seen that by far the largest number of scarified pieces have stone tempering 2 . 
Whatever the purpose of the scarifying may have been, it is likely that 
the stone-tempered and the apparently untempered ware required this 
treatment more often than that tempered with shell. Although plainly 
intentional, the scratches form no regular pattern and were not orna- 
mental; besides, being almost exclusively on the inside of the pots, they 
could not be seen. On some pieces the scarifying extends almost to the 
top of the rim and some of the scratches are quite deep and fully an eighth 
of an inch wide. Only one of the fragments shows any scarifying on 
the outside surface. 
1 Loomis, F. B., and Young, D. B.: “On the Shell-heaps of Maine”; Am. Jour. Soi. (New Haven, 1912), vol. 
XXXIV, p. 38. 
1 Algonkian ware from Ontario, which is all tempered with stone, is similarly, though less frequently, scarified. 
Out of one hundred and ninety-five fragments from a site near Casselman, Russell county, in the Museum, sixty- 
one, or more than 30 per cent, are so treated. 
