. Bulletin. Ethnology. absence of pottery from the Pacific states and British Columbia is noteworthy. The few rude vessels found in central and southern C a 1i- fornia are be- lieved to be of somewhat late origin, and may ])e due to the influence of the Pueblo tribes on the E. The principal earth- en relics of well- determined an- tiquity are clay pellets, probab- ly intended for use in slings, labret-hke forms, beads, etc., obtained from mounds in the San Joaquin valley (Holmes). Ac- cordingtoCulin, clay pellets are still used by the Pomo with the sling for hunting birds. The early and very g
. Bulletin. Ethnology. absence of pottery from the Pacific states and British Columbia is noteworthy. The few rude vessels found in central and southern C a 1i- fornia are be- lieved to be of somewhat late origin, and may ])e due to the influence of the Pueblo tribes on the E. The principal earth- en relics of well- determined an- tiquity are clay pellets, probab- ly intended for use in slings, labret-hke forms, beads, etc., obtained from mounds in the San Joaquin valley (Holmes). Ac- cordingtoCulin, clay pellets are still used by the Pomo with the sling for hunting birds. The early and very general use of basketry and of stone ves- sels in this re- gion may have oi^erated to re- tard the devel- opment of the potter's art. N. of the Canadian boundary conditions were not favorable to the development of this art, al- though s p e c i - mens of rude earthenware are obtained from m o u n d s a n d other sites in New Brunswick (Matthew and K a i n ), the Lakes j^rovinces ( B o yl e ), the Ked r. country (Montgomery), and in Alaska as far as Pt Barrow (Murdoch). Nelson describes the manufacture of pot- tery at St Michael, on Norton sd., and Hough mentions the occurrence of earth- enware lamps in the Yukon valley and on St Lawrence id. See Art, Ornament. Consult Abbott Prim. Indus., 1881 Ann. Arch;«ol. Reps. Ontario, 1888-1907 Beauchamp in Bull. N. Y. State MOUND WARE, NORTH Carolina. CORD and NET DECORATION. 4? m. ; ;>, HEIGHTS? Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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