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and 9; Plate XXI, figures 2, 4, and 11; Plate XIII, figures 1, 4, 7, and 8; 
and Plate XIV, figures 1,2, 10, 14, 16, and 20. Both trailed and interrupted 
lines are seen on the fragment illustrated in Plate IX, figure 1. None of 
the bands of trailed lines appears to have been made by a single operation 
with a notched or grooved implement, but each line was made singly, 
the depth of the resulting groove depending on the amount of pressure 
exerted. The grooves are unusually deep on the fragment seen in Plate 
X, figure 1. Trailed and interrupted lines are about equally common. 
Some of the short lines or strokes, like those seen on the fragments illus- 
trated in Plate VII, figures 9 and 11, and Plate IX, figures 5 and 6, and 
on the partly restored pot seen in Plate XVI, may have been drawn into 
the clay with a blunt point. 
Incising differs from trailing only in this respect, that a thin, knife- 
like blade, instead of a blunt point, was probably used to produce the lines. 
Such apparently incised lines are seen on the fragments illustrated in Plate 
XII, figures 1 and 3; Plate XIII, figure 9; and Plate XIV, figures 4, 7, and 8. 
Embossing to produce nodes or bosses on the outside of the rims by 
punching holes from the inside, while the walls were still plastic, may be 
seen on fragments of about eighty-five different pots, some of which are 
illustrated in Plate IV, figure 8; Plate V, figures 1, and 8 to 15; Plate VII, 
figure 9; Plate VIII, figure 12; Plate XII, figure 4; Plate XIV, figure 13; 
and Plate XV. 
Wren’s suggestion that the deep indentations, producing the nodes, 
“which are the farthest removed from the direct action of the heat, may 
have been made so that the heat could more fully penetrate the shell 
at these parts, and produce a more even expansion of the shell,” 1 does not 
seem to be a satisfactory explanation. The indentations, or rather the 
nodes produced by them, seem to have been wholly decorative. The 
holes are irregular, round, oval, oblong, triangular, square, rectangular, 
or kidney shaped; a few are punched at an angle. The hole on one 
fragment (Plate XIV, figure 8) went entirely through the wall. The 
irregular, and some of the angular, holes were produced with rough-ended 
sticks. Of the round holes some w r ere made w r ith rounded, pointed, or 
squarely cut ends of smoothly finished tools, others with tools having a 
hollow in the end. These holes are from about | to about f inch in diameter, 
but one of the oblong depressions is about f inch long. The holes and the 
resulting bosses are nearly equidistant on all the pots and from £ inch to 
about 2 inches below the rim. They are close together on the fragments 
illustrated in Plate V, figures 9 and 11 to 15. In some instances the bulge 
on the outside is scarcely perceptible (Plate V, figure 1, and Plate VIII, 
figure 12); in others, as in the specimen shown in Plate V, figure 8, the 
node projects more than | inch beyond the side of the rim. 
The holes had the disadvantage of retaining the food that was cooked 
in the vessels and some of them are filled with the carbonaceaous matter 
that encrusts the inside surface of many of the pots. 
No pottery with bosses has been found at later Neutral sites in this 
county and in Waterloo county. Stray specimens come from elsewhere 
in Ontario, some from Iroquoian sites, and pottery with this kind of decora- 
tion has a wide distribution in the United States. 
>0p cit., p. 35. 
