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The rim margins are also invariably decorated (Plate XI, figures 12 and 
17), the decoration on the inner edge being in some cases quite extensive 
(Plate XI, figure 5), although generally of the same pattern as that on the 
outside. The simplest decoration consists of roundish, oval, triangular, 
and squarish depressions, made with blunt markers (Plate XI, figures 19 
and 21). Markings of various kinds made with a rocking stamp (Plate 
XI, figures 12 and 17), some of it zigzag (Plate XI, figure 7), are the most 
common kinds of decoration. There is also a certain amount of decoration 
with what seem to have been cord-, splint-, or sinew-wound twigs (Plate 
XI, figures 6, 8, and 9), and possibly fabrics (Plate XI, figure 2). Other 
decoration consists of a series of parallel meanders, each separately stamped 
with a piece of wood with alternate notches cut on the stamping end 
(Plate XI, figure 14). One rim fragment bears a pinnate or herring- 
bone design. A few zigzag impressions look as if they had been made 
with the edge of a cockle or scallop shell (Plate XI, figure 3). Another 
design, composed of zigzags, is seen on the rim fragment on Plate XI, figure 
5, but it is not certain how it was made. There is very little trailed and 
incised line decoration. A few lines were produced by drawing the marker 
with a jerky motion across the surface, resulting in a broken or interrupted 
line. A few specimens bear rows of short, linear markings, placed end to 
end, at short intervals apart. The lines made with rocking stamps in 
some cases form rectilinear patterns (Plate XI, figure 17). A few reticulate 
designs are composed of stamped (Plate XI, figure 1) and others of trailed 
lines. It is uncertain how other markings were made (Plate XI, figures 10, 
11, 13, 15, 18, and 20). In many cases two and three different decorative 
techniques can be seen on the same pots. A few pots have holes punched 
from the inside of the rim, producing rounded eminences on the outside 
(Plate XI, figure 6), and in a few cases there are two rows of holes and 
bosses; other pots had the holes punched from the outside (Plate XI, 
figures 2, 9, and 12). Only one rim fragment seen by the writer has 
ornamentation in relief. 
What differentiates most Iroquoian pottery from Algonkian ware is the 
overhanging rim ( See Figure 2, c and /, page 82), although it is by no means 
an exclusively Iroquoian feature, being found on pottery from sites of 
Mound-building Indians in Ohio and Virginia. Iroquoian ware is also 
superior and more highly developed in several other respects. Fragments 
of pottery are abundant at most Iroquoian sites; a few whole but mostly 
small vessels come from refuse deposits, and large specimens are found 
occasionally in graves, ossuaries, and crevices in rocks. The ware of the 
different groups varied slightly and more marked differences are noted in 
the wares from Neutral Indian sites of different periods. 
The most common type of pot from Neutral sites of the archaic 
period has a round-bottomed globular body, slightly constricted neck, 
and flaring mouth (See Figure 2, b, page 82, except that the bottom is 
more rounded) in many cases with a slightly incurved, or rolled rim 
(Figure 2, d). A few, mostly small and crude, have more or less straight 
walls, in a few cases slightly incurved, in others slightly everted; one 
has the rim smaller in circumference than the body and rising more 
or less vertically from the shoulder (See Figure 2, c). Very few had 
overhanging collared rims, deeply constricted necks, and none had 
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