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Provinces (Smith, 3, Plate X, figure 14), and in New Jersey (Abbott, 
Figure 169), and on Holmes’ "Northwestern Group” of pottery from 
Wisconsin (Abbott, Figure 170), Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, and 
Ohio (See pieces so marked in Holmes, 2, Plates CLXVI to CLXIX and 
CLXXI, and Figure 74). It occurs on pottery from sites of the same 
culture as Roebuck in the St, Lawrence valley, in Grenville and Glengarry 
counties, Ontario; at the site of Hochelaga (Dawson, 3, Figure d), and 
at another site near Lanoraie, Quebec; in Jefferson county. New York 
(Skinner, 4, Plates XXVIII, XXIX, XXXIII, XXXIV, XXXV, and 
XXXVI) ; and in Vermont (Perkins, 3, Plate XXXV). Others have been 
found at other Iroquoian sites in Ontario and New York (Beauchamp, 2, 
Figures 16, 20, and 100). 
The circles seen on many of the pots were probably made by stamping 
with the ends of some of the small, cylindrical bone tubes, described 
elsewhere in this report as beads (See the fragments with this kind of 
decoration illustrated in Plates II, III, V, and VI to IX). Tubes of two 
different sizes were used to make the concentric circles seen on the rim 
fragment in Plate VIII, figure 15; the mouthpiece of a pipe stem seems to 
have been used to make other circles, and it is probable that a few others 
■were made by stamping with some of the flattened, discoidal stone beads. 
A few were made with a broken tube, the resulting impressions being 
horseshoe like; others, as on the rim fragment in Plate VIII, figure 6, 
were made in halves with a semicircular stamp. In some cases the circles 
were crowded so closely that they merged with one another. They are 
from i to ^ inch in diameter. In most instances they are shallow; in one 
case \ inch deep. In a few cases the circles were stamped after the general 
design had been made, as on the fragments in Plate VII, figure 2, Plate 
VIII, figures 11, 19, and Plate IX, figure 7, where the raised part enclosed 
by circles is crossed by lines. 
Other circular impressions were produced by stamping with the end 
of a solid, cylindrical tool (See Plate VIII, figure 2). 
Lines were made by drawing, or by trailing and incising. Trailing 
the blunt point of a wooden, bone, or antler tool across the plastic surface 
of the pots produced grooves more or less regular in width. Some of the 
lines may have been produced with the tool made from the lower jaw of 
the bear, seen in Plate XVII, figure 18; actual experiment shows that it is 
adapted for the purpose. Lines may also have been made with the bone 
objects in Plate XVII, figures 1-3, 5, and probably also some of the. pointed 
bone objects described as awls, especially those with flattened points like 
the one in Plate XIV, figure 31. Few of the lines are as fine and close 
together as those on the small pot seen in Plate XI. Some are poorly 
made, or else have been obscured by subsequent smoothing; others are 
broken; and a few, as is suggested by the ragged edges, were made after 
the surface of the pot had become partly dry. Other lines were unevenly 
drawn, in some cases being wider and deeper at one end than at the other, 
or wider in the middle than at the ends; and they were so deeply impressed 
on certain pots as to leave a wide groove (See cross-section in Plate XII, 
figure 46). The people here, in common with the other Iroquois tribes, 
seem to have lacked the ability to draw a curved line freehand; Parker 
(4 : 499-500) thinks they deliberately avoided making curved lines. The 
