85 
The most highly developed ware comes from Mohawk-Onondaga 
sites of the late pre-European period in the eastern part of southern 
Ontario and in western Quebec ( See Figure 2, f, page 82). The rims are 
highly elaborated and decorated with a few simple kinds of decoration 
(Plate XIV, figure 3) and a variety of complex patterns, the most common 
being chevrons of several different kinds, composed of triangular, rhom- 
boidal, and trapezoidal plats filled with vertical, diagonal, or horizontal 
lines (Plate XIV, figures 6, 7, 9, and 10). One of the distinctive designs, 
known as the “corn-ear pattern,” consists of vertical ridges surrounding 
the rim, the kernels being indicated by short, transverse incisions. There 
is a more extensive use of stamped circles (Plate XIV, figures 9 and 10) 
which occur in combination with other decorative elements in many 
patterns. Many of the pots are decorated on the outside, inside, and edge 
of the rim, in the neck, and on the shoulders. Most of the ware is harder 
and firmer than that from other groups, especially that of the Neutrals; 
and it is mostly smooth, except when the surface is covered with chequered 
paddle-marking or textile texturing. There are more pots with over- 
hanging collars, angular lips, and polygonal rims, more with loop handles, 
and more with carinated shoulders than at other Iroquoian sites. Only a 
few of the pots are of the type with flaring rim like that in Figure 2, b. 
Pottery from Huron, Tionontati, Neutral, and Iroquois sites of the 
post-European period, except that which had survived from pre-European 
times, is mostly smaller than that from earlier sites, and there is a tendency 
to narrow the rims and restrict the decoration to mere notches on the edge of 
the rim. A few have handles (Plate XIV, figure 14), but these have mostly 
become mere ornamental features, apparently no longer functioning as 
handles. A few pots from Tionontati sites have all-over decoration (Plate 
XIV, figure 13) and one is decorated with impressions made with cord- 
wound twigs (Plate XIV, figure 4). A reticulate design, which also occurs 
on ware of the earlier periods, is seen on Plate XIV, figure 5. 
Pipes 
Only three fragmentary pipes are known to have been found at Algon- 
kian sites in Ontario (Plate XII, figures 17 and 18). The stem of the one 
in figure 18, part of which is missing, is mixtilinear-triangular in cross- 
section. The two other specimens are crude stems of broken pipes, both 
bearing decoration apparently made with cord-wound twigs; the one in 
figure 17 being of an unusual shape, and the other lenticular in cross-section. 
Pipes from Iroquoian sites are of several different types. Those from 
Neutral sites of the archaic period are mostly modified monitors (Plate 
XIII, figure 1), but only one is of the typical form. All but a few have 
simple, cylindrical bowls, and the short stems are round, oval, triangular, 
and diamond-shaped in cross-section; very few are decorated. 
During the transitional period pipes were more extensively used and 
a few new types were evolved; there was a general improvement in tech- 
nique, and a greater degree of ornamentation. The modified monitor of 
the archaic period persists, but others, mostly decorated, appear, including 
those with bowls having a barrel-shape (Plate XIII, figure 6); barrel-shape 
with cylindrical top (Plate XIII, figure 2); urn-shape; ovoid; inverted 
cone shape (Plate XIII, figure 3); trumpet shape (Plate XIII, figure 7); 
and a type between a cone and trumpet. The type of earthenware pipe 
