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county — in some cases at pre-European sites (Orr, 2:27), in others at 
post-European (See author, 6, Figure 4). Handles are seldom seen on 
pottery from Iroquoian sites in New York (Beauchamp, 2: 142, and Parker, 
3:487). 
One of the shoulder fragments (Plate II, figure 12), bears a long 
projection, smoothed on the end, which may be the remains of a handle that 
was broken before the pot was fired. 
What may be the remains of a lug can be seen on the inside of the 
pot fragment in Plate II, figure 14. Perhaps there was a human head 
on this projection as on the inner part of two angular lips (probably parts 
of the same pot), found at the site of Hochelaga {See Dawson, 3, Figures 
15, 19). 1 
A small toy pot has a modelled perforation through the rim, probably 
for suspension. 
The thickness of the walls varied in different parts of the same pot. 
The rim of most of the pots was thicker than the neck, which also was 
mostly thinner than the shoulder, the increase in thickness of the latter in 
many cases being due to the presence of a distinct ridge on the outside, 
or on both outside and inside surfaces. The thinnest part of the pots seems 
to have been the bilge, one of the fragments being only ^ inch thick, 
whereas the thickest part of the body of most pots was the base; some of 
the small, crude vessels have unusually thick bases. The rims are from 
^3 inch to 1£ inches thick, the majority being § inch; the extremely thick 
pieces are chiefly angular lips. As a rule the thickest part of the rim is 
at the lower angle of the collar; the very convex rims are thickest at the 
middle. Fragments of the body are from £ inch to £ inch thick, most of 
them being inch; but only three fragments are more than f inch. 
The colour of the outer and inner surfaces of the pots is either buff, 
pinkish, various shades of red (very seldom terra-cotta), reddish brown, 
light brown, light grey, dark grey, or black. The majority of fragments 
are buff, red, and brown; the next largest number is black; and a very 
small number is grey. The largest number of fragments is black on the 
inside, and those with grey interiors are a little more numerous than those 
with red; one of the fragments has a bright red inside surface. There are 
about three times as many fragments with red outer and inner surfaces as 
there are of black or grey, and nearly three times as many with black on 
the outside and inside as with both surfaces grey. Many other fragments 
are of one colour on the outside and of another colour on the inside. In 
some cases fragments of the same vessel are of different colours; this being 
due to longer burial under different conditions; for instance, one part of 
the pot was buried in black refuse while another lav in a bed of ashes, 
and a change in colour was inevitable. Other fragments have been changed 
to a bright red by burning since the pot became broken, the fractured 
edges being of the same colour as the surfaces. 
The blackened inside surface of the pots is due either to long usage 
or to a process designed to make the vessel more impervious. - 
None of the pottery shows any evidence of painting. 
'One is Cat. No. 47 in the Gravel collection and the other is in the Murphy collection, museum of the Canadian 
Antiquarian and Numismatic Society, Montreal. 
^The Pawnee Indians, according to Grinnell (p. 256), while the pot "was baking ‘put com in the pot and stirred 
it about, and this made it as hard as iron.’ This,” as Grinnell says, ‘‘may mean that it gave the pot a glaze on the 
inside.” The Cherokee used corn-cobs for the purpose (Harrington, 1: 222-227), 
