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The horizontal lines used in the decoration of pottery and earthen- 
ware pipes are of various lengths. There are rows of short lines between 
vertical (in one instance slightly oblique) lines on a few rims (See Plate 
IV, figures 9, 22, and Plate VI, figure 28) ; on the vertical ridges of the 
“corn-ear” and related patterns {See Plate V, figures 12, 14, lb, 21,16, 
25 27, and Plate X, figure 1) ; on the vertical angle of several angular lips 
(Plate VII, figure 6). Short lines partly encircle the handles of two pots 
(See Plate VII, figure 10) ; and they occur in two wide groups on a frag- 
ment of an earthenware pipe (Cat. No. VIII-F-12269) . Longer lines are 
seen in rectangular plats on a few rim fragments (See Plate IX, figure 8), 
and between the triangular groups of circles on a few others {See 1 late IX, 
figure 19). Horizontal lines in some cases constitute the sole decoration 
on angular lips and they also occur on the bottom of a few lips. 
Long, horizontal lines occur on the rim, neck, and shoulder of pots and 
on bowls of earthenware pipes. Bands of from one to seventeen lines are 
the sole decoration on the outside, inside, and edge of rims, on the neck 
(some of them immediately below the overhanging collar and others in 
the middle) , and shoulders of pots. They are combined with other decora- 
tive elements on the outside, inside, and edge of rims of many other pots. 
Some of the more noteworthy combinations are seen in Plate II, figures 9, 
10, Plate III, figures 20, 23, 25, 26, 28, Plate IV, figures 13, 19, Plate V, 
figure 16, Plate VI, figures 3, 8, 20, 25, 26, 28, 29, Plate VII, figure 2, Plate 
VIII, figure 15, Plate IX, figure 8, Plate X, figures 9, 11, and Plate XI. 
They are also seen on the necks (Plate III, figure 17, and Plate VI, figure 
7) and shoulders of some of the pots (Plate II, figure 34, Plate III, figure 
20, Plate VI, figure 12, and Plate VII, figures 3, 8, 11) , and on bowls of 
earthenware pipes (Plate XV, figures 34, 36, 38, 40, 41, 43, 44). 
The few curved lines are in most cases apparently the result of 
accident rather than design. Those on two rim fragments, one of which 
is seen on Plate V, figure 4, are almost curved, but it is apparent that they 
were made wdth difficulty. 
None of the pottery was decorated with a scroll or guilloche, as on 
pottery from Ohio ($ee Holmes, 2, Plate CLXII), and it is also absent 
from troquois pottery from New York {See Parker, 3:499-500). 
Deep, vertical, diagonal, horizontal, and curved grooves occur on a 
number of pots and earthenware pipes. 
The vertical grooves (exclusive of those between the ridges of the 
“ corn-ear ” pattern) are long {See Plate V, figures 8, 16, and Plate VII, 
figure 6) , in a few cases extending only partly across the collar {See Plate 
V, figures 10, 13, 20), and they are graduated in length on a few other rims 
(See Plate V, figure 12) . There are short, vertical grooves on the shoulder 
fragment in Plate V, figure 17. Other grooves are seen on the edge of a 
few rims and on the peaks of a few others. . . . 
Diagonal grooves, some of them w T ide, can be seen in association with 
other decoration on a few other rim fragments {See Plate V, figure 6), and 
there are groups of three, four, and five grooves on the fronts of the bowls 
of a few earthenware pipes. Two diagonal grooves slanting to the right 
and left, and forming V-shaped figures, occur on a few rims {See Plate V, 
figures 2, 3, and Plate X, figure 10) ; the two outer grooves on the frag- 
ment in Plate V, figure 15, are slightly oblique. 
