. Bulletin. Ethnology. WEDEL] INTKODUCTIOlSr TO PAWNEE ARCHEOLOGY 67 A noteworthy diagnostic for this type of Pawnee ware is the collarlike rim. It varies in width from 1 to 3 inches, is nearly or quite vertical on the inside, and tends to increase gradually in thick- ness from the lip to its lower edge. The resultant effect is that of an overhanging collar (fig. 7, a). A modification of this type is shown in b; the rim is here of the same thickness as the body, but is slightly concave, and its lower edge is formed by a simple outward bending of the wall of the vessel. Occasionally the thicken
. Bulletin. Ethnology. WEDEL] INTKODUCTIOlSr TO PAWNEE ARCHEOLOGY 67 A noteworthy diagnostic for this type of Pawnee ware is the collarlike rim. It varies in width from 1 to 3 inches, is nearly or quite vertical on the inside, and tends to increase gradually in thick- ness from the lip to its lower edge. The resultant effect is that of an overhanging collar (fig. 7, a). A modification of this type is shown in b; the rim is here of the same thickness as the body, but is slightly concave, and its lower edge is formed by a simple outward bending of the wall of the vessel. Occasionally the thickened lower edge of the rim is elaborated into tabs or protuberances, 4, 6, 8, or 12 in number (pi. 3, c). These are generally plain and unperforated, but where eight or more occur, alternate tabs are often extended downward to the body of the vessel to form broad loop handles (pi. 4, a). The simple, direct rim is also found, though not com- monly in the class of ware here under dis- cussion. The distribution of this particular form of collared rim is of considerable interest and may be briefly mentioned, at this point. It is found on sherds from early prehistoric cultures of the Republican Valley in southern Nebraska, but there the rims are seldom more than 1 or II/2 inches wide and bear a somewhat more varied style of ornamentation. It does not occur along the Missouri River in eastern Nebraska, is virtually unknown in Kansas, and is not men- tioned as a trait of Mandan ceramics.*^ AVhen we turn to the Iro- quois area of New York and Pennsylvania, however, the character- istic Iroquoian rim is startingly similar to that of the Pawnee pieces.*'' The latter tribe, it is true, never made vessel mouths square in outline, whereas the former often did so. But in the matter of an overhanging, collar-like rim, thinnest at the lip and thickest at the lower edge, the two areas are virtually identical. Tabs are not infre- quently found on Iroquois rims also.*'' Decoration shows further sim
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