Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . >^K : BITS OF FABHIC-MAHKCD POTTERY, WITH CLAY CAS I :, 01 AMI holmes] WHAT THE ART TEACHES. 45 evinced even in the meager vestiges brought to light by researches inthe mounds. Decorative borders and fanciful combinations of strandsare shown in some of the preceding cats, and figure 2G, copied from apottery fragment obtained in the Ohio valley, indicates a more ambi-tious attempt at embellishment. The fabric was evidently of ornatedesign and the execution excellent. Plate IX is intended to convey a
Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . >^K : BITS OF FABHIC-MAHKCD POTTERY, WITH CLAY CAS I :, 01 AMI holmes] WHAT THE ART TEACHES. 45 evinced even in the meager vestiges brought to light by researches inthe mounds. Decorative borders and fanciful combinations of strandsare shown in some of the preceding cats, and figure 2G, copied from apottery fragment obtained in the Ohio valley, indicates a more ambi-tious attempt at embellishment. The fabric was evidently of ornatedesign and the execution excellent. Plate IX is intended to convey a clear notion of the nature andappearance of fabric-marked pottery and of the manner of securingpositive impressions in clay. Three bits of pottery from Illinois areplaced at the left, and the three casts appear at the right. All illus-trate open fabrics of comparatively simple pattern done in the charac-teristic twined style. Nets were in use by the Indians of Florida and Virginia at the timeof the discovery, and the ancient pottery of the Atlantic states haspreserved impressions of innu
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