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Scarifying can be seen on forty-five fragments, but only the lower 
part of the pot was so treated. It has been partly effaced by subsequent 
smoothing on most of the pots. The grooves on a few pieces form a sort 
of herring-bone pattern as on the shoulder fragment in Plate II, figure 2. 
In a few instances the grooves are in every direction. A few pots are 
scarified on the inside. 
Some of the grooves that appear to have been the result of scarifying 
may also have been produced with a ribbed paddle. 
The lower part of twelve pots is covered with what seems to be textile 
texturing, one of them having apparently been textured with a paddle 
wound with poorly made cords or with grass leaves. Other pieces show 
texturing in patches. Pottery with this kind of surface finish is rare at 
most Iroquoian sites. 
Body fragments of about one thousand one hundred pots bear chequer 
marks produced with a malleating paddle having a griddle-like surface. 
Even one of the very small pots bears these markings and they occur on 
the collar of another vessel. In most instances the marks are square (Plate 
II, figure 1), but, more rarely, they are rectangular. In a few cases there 
are two sizes of markings on the same pot. One fragment shows both 
scarifying and chequering. 
Pottery with chequered paddle marking has been found at other sites 
of the same culture as this site in Dundas and Glengarry counties, Ontario; 
at a site in Hull county {See Smith, 2, Plate LXXXII), at the site of 
Hochelaga (Dawson, 1, Figure 4, and 3, Figure 22e), and at another site 
near Lanoraie, Berthier county, Quebec. It also occurs at Neutral sites 
in Ontario (author, 8:17), Iroquoian sites in New York (Skinner, 4, Plate 
XXVI, and Parker, 6, Plate 27), and in graves (probably Andaste) in 
northern Pennsylvania (Holmes, 2, Plate CXLVI, figure c). But chequer- 
ing on pottery is not an exclusively northern Iroquoian feature, as it occurs 
on pottery from Cherokee graves in Tennessee (Harrington, 3, Plate LI, 
figure c) and from sites of other cultures from Ohio south to Florida {See 
Nelson, pages 97-99). 
The handles seem to have been attached to the pots in three different 
ways. The simplest method was to make a short cylinder or curved piece 
of clay and weld one end either to the lower angle or to the underside 
of the angular lip and the other end to the shoulder, as seems to have 
been done with the handle on the fragments seen in Plate X, figures 16 
and 21. Another method seems to have been to have enough material 
at the ends of the handle to allow it to be spread and welded to the rim 
and wall at either end, and even to form the lower angle of the lip, as 
seems to have been done on the rim fragment seen in Plate VII, figure 10. 
Several other handles were attached in the way suggested by Holmes 
(2:54) ; he., the ends of the handles were set in holes pierced through the 
wall and then secured on the inside by spreading and smoothing the clay. 
As is suggested by the appearance of the hole left by the breaking of the 
handle on one of the fragments (Cat. No. VIII-F-9157) , the hole in this 
instance went only half-way through the wall. In two other examples 
one end of the handle seems to have been brought to a cone shape before 
it was inserted in the hole {See Plate II, figure 17). The handle of another 
pot apparently had the upper end luted to the projecting lower angle of 
