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They are mostly slightly constricted at the top (See Figure 2, a and b ), the 
walls in only a few cases being straight, but in some cases the mouth is 
decidedly flaring; a few have scalloped tops. The texture of the ware is 
mostly coarse, and much of it is rather friable, the paste consisting largely 
of coarse stone tempering. Generally the ware is decidedly inferior to 
even the coarsest Iroquoian pottery. Some of it was made by the coil 
process. The colour of most of the ware is reddish or yellowish buff, only 
a small proportion of it being grey or black; and the fractured edges are 
mostly of a uniform colour. The plain parts of the pots are either smooth 
or show the marks left by malleating paddles, in some cases making the 
Figure 2. Outlines of Algonkian and Iroquoian pots. 
surface uneven, in others leaving a surface resembling that made with a 
cord- or fabric-wound paddle. Other surface markings were made with a 
paddle with a chequered surface (Plate XI, figure 4). A few pieces are 
scarified on the outside (Plate XI, figure 3) and many others show this 
kind of marking on the inside, as on pottery from Nova Scotia. 1 Most of 
the pottery is decorated; some of it apparently all over (Plate XI, figure 7). 
'See Smith and Wintemberg: “Shell-heaps of Nova Scotia”; National Museum of Canada, Bull. 47, PI. VIII, 
fig. 12, and PL XXV, figs. 3 and 0. 
