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to the inside on one hundred and seventy others (See Plate XII, figures 
39, 67). It was squared off on two thousand and seven pots (See Plate 
XII, figures 29, 47, 57, 59, 61, 64, 65, 76, 92), and it w r as concaved longi- 
tudinally on thirty-seven other pots (See Plate XII, figure 42). The edge 
of eleven pots was shaped somewhat like that in the cross-section in Plate 
XII, figure 36, except that the projecting flange was squared off. The outer 
angle of fifty-three pots (See Plate XII, figures 14, 17, 49, 50, 64, 72, 77, 
83, 84) and the inner angle of one hundred and nineteen others ( See 
Plate XII, figures 20, 66-68, 91) were dilated. The dilation of the inner 
angle of some of the rims was shaped like those in the cross-section in 
Plate XII, figures 52 and 68. Both outer and inner angles of the rim were 
dilated on fifty-two pots ( See Plate XII, figure 82). The dilated inner 
angle of the rim of ten pots and of the outer angle of one hundred and 
forty-two other pots are flange-like (See cross-sections in Plate XII, 
figures 73-78, 88) . The dilation was often due to the pressure exerted 
when notching the inner angle of the rims and in forming the scallops on 
rims of the corn-ear pattern. 
The collars varied in height from j inch to 3| inches, the majority being 
about \\ inches; but very few are very low or extremely high. 
The overhanging collar is not an exclusively Iroquoian feature, although 
it does not seem to be common anywhere outside of the Iroquoian area. 
Cushing's suggestion that the shapes of the more highly elaborated 
Iroquoian pots, like some of those found at Roebuck, were influenced by 
birch-bark prototypes, 1 and that the decorative designs were suggested 
by the stitching on the birch-bark vessels or porcupine quillwork, is 
extremely doubtful. Beauchamp (7:58) and, more recently, Speck (2:7) 
also regard it as improbable; as Speck says, “Certainly no actual speci- 
mens corresponding to such profotypic reconstructions are in existence 
to support such an idea.” 
The necks of the third and fourth types of pots varied from shallow 
to deeply constricted and from low to high, but they were deeply con- 
stricted on only about one hundred pots. The high neck on one pot, of 
which the cross-section is seen in Plate XII, figure 69, gave it a bottle-like 
appearance. 
The shoulder was in most cases plain. It was distinctly ridged on two 
hundred and eighty pots (See cross-section in text Figure 2, a ) ; a few 
have a cross-section like the one in 5; three are like the one in d ; four have 
a raised encircling band as seen in cross-section in c; and six others have a 
broad, flattened, encircling zone as in the cross-section in e. 
Although the rim had reached a high degree of development, the body 
of the pots retained the globular form of the primal type, only some of 
those with oval mouths having an oblong body (See Plate XI). The sides 
of the body of five small pots seem to have been straight instead of bulging, 
and the vessels were probably shaped like one from York county, in the 
Museum (See Smith, 2, Plate XLVII, figure 2). One of the pots seems to 
have had a nearly flat bottom. None of them had feet or a pedestal base 
as on pots from Neutral sites in southwestern Ontario, one of which, from 
St. Davids, Lincoln county, is illustrated by Orr (3:92), and from sites 
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