. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . us assuming in a limited waj- the functions of a mold (see fig-ure 32). The mat on which a plastic vessel happens to i-est leavesimpressions rendered indeliV)le l)y subsequent tiring. The same may be true of any fabric brought intocontact with the plastic surface, butthe impressions in such cases arc ac-cidental and have no practical func-tion. That baskets were used in the Eastas molds is attested by historical evi-dence, as may be seen by referenceto the citation from Hunter, previ-ously mad
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . us assuming in a limited waj- the functions of a mold (see fig-ure 32). The mat on which a plastic vessel happens to i-est leavesimpressions rendered indeliV)le l)y subsequent tiring. The same may be true of any fabric brought intocontact with the plastic surface, butthe impressions in such cases arc ac-cidental and have no practical func-tion. That baskets were used in the Eastas molds is attested by historical evi-dence, as may be seen by referenceto the citation from Hunter, previ-ously made. I can Itut regard it asremarkable, however, that in hand-ling thousands of specimens of thispottery I have found no vase the im-prints on which fully warrant thestatement that a l)asket was employed as a mold, or even as a supportfor the incipient clay form. Many assertions to the contrary havebeen made, probably through misapprehension of the nature of the Fig. 31—Use of a basket in modeling an earthen vessel(Pueblo Indians, Gushing, in the Fourth Annual Re-port of the Bureau of Ethnology).. Fl(i. 32—Use o( a baski_-t us a mold tlubase of an earthen vessel (Rieblo Indians,Cushing, work cited). 70 ABORIGINAL POTTERY OF EASTERN UNITED STATES [
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