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eminences on the marking end; and a similar tool seems to have been used 
to produce the depressions on the edge of the rim fragment seen in Plate 
II, figure 23. 
The reniform depressions seen on some of the rim margins (See Plate 
II, figures 7, 8) seem to have been made with the end of a tool that was 
either half-round or semi-circular in cross-section. 
Pressing the corner of a squared stick, held at an angle, into the clay 
resulted in triangular depressions like those seen on the shoulder fragments 
in Plate VI, figures 15, 16. The double row of crudely made depressions 
on the fragments seen in Plate II, figure 32, and Plate IV, figure 15 (on 
lower angle), seem to have been made with a tool that was square or 
triangular in cross-section, the length of the depression depending on the 
angle at which the tool was held. The diamond-shaped depressions seen 
on a few rim fragments were probably made with similar tools. 
The notches on the outer and inner angles of the rim were probably 
made by pressing a stick, triangular or square in cross-section, cornerwise 
across the angle (See Plate II, figure 18). The round, oval, oviform, and 
oblong notches along the lower angle of many of the rims seem to have 
been produced with the rounded edge of an awl, antler tine, or other tool, 
the size of the notches depending on the thickness of the tool and the 
amount of pressure exerted (See Plate V, figure 16). Other kinds of 
notches were produced with a square-ended stick, and crude ones were 
made with rough-ended sticks. 
The elliptical depressions forming what were probably intended to 
represent the eye- and mouth of a face, seen in Plate IX, figure 2, were 
probably made with the tip of a paddle-shaped bone object like the one in 
Plate XVII, figure 1 . 
The decoration on rims of a small number of pots was made with a 
roulette, which may either have been a notched wheel like the one 
reconstructed by Holmes (2, Figure 43) or a thin, wide, spatulate rocking 
stamp with the rounded end notched. The lines filling the triangular 
plats of the chevrons, on account of their unequal lengths, could only have 
been made with the rocking stamp, as it was possible to make both long 
and short lines with the one tool, by simply regulating the rocking. The 
lines on the fragment in Plate II, figure 40, are slightly curved, and were 
probably so made by giving the stamp a slight turn while rocking it. The 
separate impressions composing the lines made with rocking stamps are of 
different kinds, most of them being rectangular; some are somewhat square 
and crude; others rhomboid-ovate. The stamp that was used to make the 
lines on one rim fragment (Cat. No. VIII-F-10614) must have had a 
very thin edge, with the notches close together, and the one used to make 
the row of oblique lines on another fragment (Plate II, figure 41) also 
appears to have been finely notched. Some of the impressions show that 
the notches on the edges of certain stamps were at unequal distances 
apart; one stamp seems to have borne but three notches. Other rim 
fragments with markings made with rocking stamps are seen in Plate II, 
figures 37 and 39; the finer decoration on the shoulder fragment in Plate 
II, figure 38, may also have been produced with this kind of stamp. 
Decoration produced with rocking stamps is not confined to Iroquoian 
pottery, as it occurs on Algonkian pots from Ontario, the Maritime 
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