. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . and 4 feet in circumference. Theweight is 10 pounds. The top opening is oblong, 10 inches the narrow way and 12inches the wide way. Two pairs of holes have been bored in one side, probably forinserting cords for the purpose of checking an incipient crack. The ornamentationis not as elaborate as on some jjieces I have found liere, but still is very fair. Askeleton was buried with it, but nothing could be saved of this except some frag-ments of the skull. The smaller vessel shown in tiiis plate
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . and 4 feet in circumference. Theweight is 10 pounds. The top opening is oblong, 10 inches the narrow way and 12inches the wide way. Two pairs of holes have been bored in one side, probably forinserting cords for the purpose of checking an incipient crack. The ornamentationis not as elaborate as on some jjieces I have found liere, but still is very fair. Askeleton was buried with it, but nothing could be saved of this except some frag-ments of the skull. The smaller vessel shown in tiiis plate is about the size of an ordi-naiy coffee cup, and is similar in character to the large piece. The pottery of this site presents pronounced Algonquian characters,and if the sherds were to be intermingled with those of Atlantic coastsites it would be difficult to separate them. Plate clxxiv containsfragments of rims of ordiuarj vessels. It \yill be seen that one ofthese has a sharp projection, such as is frequentlj seen in the Iroquoiauware of New York, and it is further noted that the mouth of the. Fig. 7t)—Sections of uf vhscs from ii village site at Two Rivers, Wisconsin vessel was squarish, emphasizing the likeness to the Iroquoian is not at all impossible that the influence of the powerful tribes ofNew York extended to the western shores of the Great lakes, but sincethis angular form is undoubtedly due to the influence of bark vessels,it may have had an independent origin in the West. The paste of this pottery is not very ffne grained, and it is temperedwith silicious particles, sometimes rather The pot or caldronpresents variants in form extending from deep bowl shapes, on the onehand, to rather tal 1 jar shapes, on the other. In size the specimens varyfronl minute cups to 18 or 20 inches in diameter. The base isrounded or conic, the shoulder is often slightly angular, and the neckis more or less sharply constricted. The rim is generally t
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