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Title: Exploration of a Munsee cemetery near Montague, New Jersey
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Heye, George G. (George Gustav), 1874-1957 Pepper, George H. (George Hubbard), 1873-1924, joint author
Subjects: Munsee Indians
Publisher: New York, The Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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FORTI3NS OF RIMS OF VESSELS SHOWING TYPES OF FRIEZE DECORATI3N HEYE-PEPPER—EXPLORATION OF A MUNSEE CEMETERY 6? above and below, the frieze is margined by a line of slanting, wheel-made lines. The edge of the lip is plain. EARTHENWARE SHOWING ALGONQUIAN AND IROQUOIS TECHNIQUE COMBINED As before stated, among the fragmentary vessels found in themound were four that combined the technique of both the Dela-wares and the Iroquois. Plate xxvi shows half of a small globular jar of Iroquois shape,the surface of which is paddle-marked. The frieze is covered withincised lines, and the general effect is crude in comparison with typi-cal jars of either the Algonquian or the Iroquois. There is a lip-projection, and the frieze below it is covered with crudely scratchedlines. Encircling the central portion of the neck is an incised band—an unusual neck decoration. Height 5J in.; diameter 4! in. A fragment of the rim portion of one of these jars has a lip-projec-tion that characterizes Iroquois v

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