The antiquities of Wisconsin : as surveyed and described . s the vase found in a mound at Racine, and restored by Dr. Hoy, described in Chapter 1 Mr. Catliu informs us that earthen dishes arc made by the Mandan women in great quantities,and modelled in a thousand forms and tastes. They are made from a tough black clay, and baked inkilns which are made for the purpose, and are nearly equal in hardness to our own manufactured pottery,though they have not yet got the art of glazing. They make them so strong and serviceable, however,that they hang them over the fire as we do our iron kett
The antiquities of Wisconsin : as surveyed and described . s the vase found in a mound at Racine, and restored by Dr. Hoy, described in Chapter 1 Mr. Catliu informs us that earthen dishes arc made by the Mandan women in great quantities,and modelled in a thousand forms and tastes. They are made from a tough black clay, and baked inkilns which are made for the purpose, and are nearly equal in hardness to our own manufactured pottery,though they have not yet got the art of glazing. They make them so strong and serviceable, however,that they hang them over the fire as we do our iron kettles, and boil their meat in them with perfectsuccess. Here women can be seen handling them by hundreds, moulding them in fanciful forms, andpassing them through the kilns.—Catlins North American Indians, I, 116 ; quoted in SquiersAntiquities of New York, page 132. 3 That the state of the potters art among the southern nations was not much more advanced than inWisconsin, appears from the following extract: The ancient pottery of Nicaragua is always well. 86 ANTIQUITIES OF WISCONSIN. Fig. 54 represents a stone axe. These axes are worked to a sharp edge at oneend, and have a depression around the head for the handle. Although they allhave the same general form, there are no two exactly alike. The one figured musthave been used in the manner of a carpenters adze. These are made of the hardest Fig. 53. Fig. 54. Fig. 55. Fig. 56.
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