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of other cultures in Arkansas (See Harrington, 2, Plate XLVI, figure b ) 
and Ohio (See Holmes, 2, Plate CLXIII, figure d, and Willoughby, 2, Plate 
24, figures k and l). 
Twenty-nine pots had handles. Five fragments are parts of rims 
retaining parts of handles, four are shoulder fragments with the handles 
either partly or wholly missing, nine others are handles broken from rims, 
and the rest are rim fragments with the handles more or less complete. 
The larger fragments bearing handles are of small and medium-sized 
pots, with overhanging collars, all but one (which is that of a round- 
mouthed pot) having an oval mouth and an angular lip at each end {See 
Plate VII, figure 10). None of the polygonal rims had handles. In most 
cases there were probably two handles, although a few may have had only 
Figure 2. Cross-sections of shoulders of pots (J natural size). 
one, as on a pot from Baptiste lake, Hastings county {See Boyle, 5, Figure 
4). The handles are of three different kinds: one is straight (Cat. No. 
VIII-F- 10623) , fifteen are curved {See Plate VII, figure 10, and Plate X, 
figures 16 and 21), and three are angular (Cat. Nos. VIII-F-9315, 
VIII-F-10625, and VIII-F-12606). The handle is merely a prolongation of 
the projecting lower angle of the angular lip on most of the fragments, the 
lower end merging with the shoulder. The upper end of the handle on 
others was attached to the underside of the lip {See Plate VII, figure 10). 
None of the handles is broad and flattened like some from post-European 
Iroquoian sites in Ontario and from sites of other cultures in the United 
States {See author, 6:41-42). They have either a more or less round, oval, 
ovoid, or mixtilinear-tri angular cross-section, and are from \ to T 6 ¥ inch 
in diameter. 
The handles do not seem to have been merely ornamental features but 
probably served for lifting and carrying the pots, although in only a few 
was the opening large enough to admit the fingers. Possibly the pots were 
carried by a cord secured to the handles. 
Pottery with handles, which seems a very late development, has a 
limited distribution in eastern Canada, and occurs exclusively at Iroquoian 
sites. It is found at sites of the same culture as Roebuck in the St. Law- 
rence valley in Glengarry county, Ontario, and also occurs at other 
Iroquoian sites elsewhere in the province, one as far west as Middlesex 
