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the rest of the design consists not of horizontal lines, but of rows of short, 
vertical lines. The addition of the tail-like appendage to the bottom 
of the V-shaped figure, seen in Plate XIV, figure 1, makes the design 
strikingly bird-like. It may, however, have been a mere whim of the 
potter, without any intention to represent a bird. The writer does not 
remember seeing anything similar in prehistoric or modern Indian graphic 
art. Neither has he seen the V-shaped figures on later Neutral pottery; 
they do not occur on the pottery found at the Roebuck village site, in 
eastern Ontario. 
The triangular grouping of circles, as well as of the oval and round 
depressions, seen on the fragments illustrated in Plate XIV, figures 17 to 20, 
was probably intended to represent the eyes and mouth of the human face. 
This motive is one of the links connecting the art of the Uren site people with 
that of the Iroquois, as it is very rarely seen outside of the Iroquoian 
area 1 . The writer knows of only one example on later Neutral ware, on 
a fragment found at a village site in West Oxford township, about 13 
miles northwest of this site. The motive occurs abundantly on probable 
Mohawk-Onondaga pottery in eastern Ontario (notably at the Roebuck 
village site), at the site of Hochelaga in Montreal, in northeastern New 
York, and in Vermont. 
The pan-Iroquoian chevron design was not found here; the nearest 
approach to it is seen on the fragment of an earthenware pipe, illustrated 
in Plate XXIII, figure 12. The pattern on the fragment, seen in Plate 
XIV, figure 16, is somewhat like a Greek fret. A crude pattern, consisting 
of curved and straight lines, is seen on the fragment illustrated in figure 7, 
on the same plate. Unusual patterns also occur on the fragments illus- 
trated in figures 8 to 11 and 13 to 15. Other composite designs, on this 
and other plates, do not require any special comment. 
Most of the different elements, described above, were used to decorate 
the rim-tops of pots; a few of these decorated margins are seen in Plate 
XVII, figures 1 to 11. The most common decoration consists of lines 
running obliquely across the top of the rim, which accords with the repeated 
use of short oblique lines on the exterior and interior of the walls of pots. 
Single longitudinal lines occur in nearly as many cases on the rim margins 
as the oblique lines. A longitudinal line is also seen on top of the margin 
of the pipe bowl, illustrated in Plate XXIII, figure 11. Only on eight 
pots does the top edge of the rim bear decoration consisting of more than 
one element. Not more than a few patterns require particular notice. 
The double row of alternating transverse impressions, seen in Plate 
XVII, figure 7, is unusual. The oblique lines, seen in figure on the 
same plate, engage with the notches on the outer angle of the rim. A 
single row of transverse lines, at right angles to a single longitudinal line, 
is seen in figure 6, and one of the margins is decorated with a peculiar 
zigzag, like that at the top of the fragment illustrated in Plate XII, figure 4. 
An unusual arrangement of short lines is seen in Plate XVII, figure 10; 
and similar lines occur on the fragment, illustrated in Plate VIII, figure 
9. In Plate XIII, figure 2, the line on top of the rim margin descends 
abruptly over the outer edge of the rim and merges with the upper line 
of the V- shaped figure. 
•See Holmes: op. cit., Plate CLXXV, fig. a, and Shetrone, H. C.: "The Campbell Island Village Site and the 
Hine Mound and Village Site,” Certain Mounds and Village Sites in Ohio, vol. 4, pt. 1, Fig. 31. (Columbus, Ohio, 
1923). 
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