. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . of April 21,1725, in Doc. Col. Hist, of New York, Albany. , , p. 943. ft Shepherd, James, New England Magazine, December, 1893. c Perkins, George H., The calumet in the Cbamplain valley, in Pop. Sci. Monthly, New York, 1893,Tol. XLiv, p. 238; some relics of the Indians of Vermont, in .\raer. Salem, 1871, vol. v, p II; oniome fragments of pottery from Vermont, in Proo. Am. Ass. Adv. Soi., p. 32.). holmes) VASK FROM COLCHESTKK, VERMONT 169 A typical example of thi^; ware
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . of April 21,1725, in Doc. Col. Hist, of New York, Albany. , , p. 943. ft Shepherd, James, New England Magazine, December, 1893. c Perkins, George H., The calumet in the Cbamplain valley, in Pop. Sci. Monthly, New York, 1893,Tol. XLiv, p. 238; some relics of the Indians of Vermont, in .\raer. Salem, 1871, vol. v, p II; oniome fragments of pottery from Vermont, in Proo. Am. Ass. Adv. Soi., p. 32.). holmes) VASK FROM COLCHESTKK, VERMONT 169 A typical example of thi^; ware from Vermont was illustrated anddescribed by Mr Perkins in the American Naturalist, vol. ^, p. 14,and again very fully described in the Proceedings of the AmericanAssociation for 1876. The specimen was found at considerable depthl)elow the surface of the ground, in the town of Colchester, Vermont,in 1825. It is remarkable for strongly emphasized contours, sym-metry, careful finish, and elaborate ornamentation, and is in everyway typical of the group. An excellent cut of itappear(>d in Harpers. Fig. (i-1—Vasf from a grave (?) in Colchester. Vermont. Magazine, vol. lxv, p. 254. The illustration here presented, figure64, is from a photograph of a cast of this vase, now preserved in theNational Museum. The rim has been paitially restored. CANADIAN WAKE In historic times, and for an luiknowii period of pre-Columbiantime, the Iroquoian tribes occupied a wide belt north of the St Law-rence river. Lakes Erie and Ontario, and their dominion extended attimes over the Lake Huron region, and into the country about LakesSuperior and Michigan. As a matter of course the region is strewnwith the fragments of their earthenware, which bears throughout the 170 ABORIGINAL POTTERY OF EASTERN UNITED STATES [ peculiar characteristics of Iroquoian art. There are many variations,however, of shape and decoration, as a number of tribes, tlie Hurons,Eries, and. later, the Wyandots, o
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