Exploration of a Munsee cemetery near Montague, New Jersey . tail under aseparate heading (pages 67-70). At the present time a satisfactory comparative study of theceramic arts of the area under consideration is not possible, owinglargely to dearth of material. That two well-defined types ofpottery are represented at the Minisink site, however, cannot bequestioned. A few specimens present characters common to bothtypes and may be the result of association of two distinct aboriginalgroups of people, but we are not able to determine whether theIroquois type of pottery represents a post-conquest
Exploration of a Munsee cemetery near Montague, New Jersey . tail under aseparate heading (pages 67-70). At the present time a satisfactory comparative study of theceramic arts of the area under consideration is not possible, owinglargely to dearth of material. That two well-defined types ofpottery are represented at the Minisink site, however, cannot bequestioned. A few specimens present characters common to bothtypes and may be the result of association of two distinct aboriginalgroups of people, but we are not able to determine whether theIroquois type of pottery represents a post-conquest period, when thearts of the victors were forced upon the conquered, or whether theywere Algonquian merely by ownership through the medium of trade. In considering the pottery of the Eastern Indians, ProfessorHolmes1 says: To exactly what extent the Algonquian tribes are responsible for thenorthern types of pottery, aside from those definitely assignable to the 1 Aboriginal Pottery of the Eastern United States, Twentieth Ann. Rep. Bur,Amer. Ethnol., p.
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