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Both outside and inside surfaces of the body of most of the pots were 
smooth; and some of the ware is glossy. Crazing can be seen o’n a few 
pieces, especially those containing coarse tempering. 
All but twenty-six pots were decorated; the decoration occurring on 
the flattened edges only of rims of forty- three pots, mostly those of the 
third type; on the outside of the rims of two thousand one hundred and 
ninety-nine pots; on both outside and inside of rims of two thousand two 
hundred and twenty-six pots; on the edge and the outside of rims on one 
hundred and four pots; on the inside and edge of rims of eighteen pots; 
and on the outside, inside, and edge of rims of two hundred and seventy- 
two other pots. The decoration on the inside was not extensive, being 
confined to a narrow space immediately below the margin {See Plate III, 
figure 5) , in some cases being on the inner angle, or on the dilated, flange- 
like projection occurring on some of the rims. The handles ( See Plate VII, 
figure 10, and Plate X, figures 16 and 21) and even the underside of a few 
angular lips were decorated; one lip shows decoration on the inside (*See 
Plate III, figure 1). The necks of two hundred and sixty-seven pots were 
ornamented, but it was extensive or elaborate only on the smaller pots. 
Fragments with decoration on the neck and rim only are seen in Plate VI, 
figures 7 and 11. Shoulders of one thousand and fifteen pots bore decora- 
tion, which was of the simplest character on most of the larger pots and 
extensive, in some cases elaborate, on the smaller vessels. Fragments with 
both shoulder and rim decorated are shown in Plate III, figure 20, Plate 
VII, figures 3 and 11, and Plate X, figure 19. A few pots, in addition to 
the ornamentation on the shoulder, were decorated on the rim and neck; 
that on the rim being mostly simple, whereas that on the neck and shoulder 
was extensive and elaborate {See Plate IV, figure 5, Plate VII, figure 8, 
Plate X, figures 16 and 21, and Plate XI). A small pot, of which a frag- 
ment is seen in Plate II, figure 22, is almost covered with decoration; but 
none of the pots seems to have had all-over decoration. 
One of the rims bears a modelled representation of a human face in 
relief (Plate IX, figure 26) . Pot rims bearing similar faces have been 
found in other Iroquoian sites in Ontario. 
The abundance of pottery fragments suggests that a large number of 
pots were in constant use and that they were often broken. 1 The pots were 
probably put to various uses — the extremely small specimens may_ have 
been toys or held face paint; the more ornate, highly decorated, small or 
medium-sized vessels were possibly used in religious ceremonials; and the 
larger pots probably served as containers for food and as cooking vessels, 
the carbonized incrustation on the inside of many rims being the remains 
of the food cooked in them. 
The overhanging collars on the pots were ornamental rather than use- 
ful, but there is no doubt that the projecting lips on some of the collars 
were more functional than ornamental, having probably been added to 
facilitate the pouring of liquids from the pots without spilling; one of them 
even has the inner angle of the lip grooved. 
^agard (2: 260) , describing the earthenware pots, probably of the Hurons, says they * ‘are so strong that they do 
not, like our own, break over the fire when having no water in them. But they cannot sustain dampness nor cold 
water so long as our own, since they become brittle and break at the least shock given them; otherwise they last 
very well.” 
