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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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p incisions. The walls of this jar aie relativelythin and the ware is light in color. Another example of human-face ornamentation is illustrated bya fragment of the rim and side of a typical Iroquois jar with plainbody as shown in plate xxiii, b. It has an abrupt shoulder, and theneck is concave. One lip-projection is shown, and the space belowit, a portion of the frieze, is emphasized by a conventionalizedhuman face, on each side of which is a design formed of oblique andhorizontal lines, the latter bordered with punctate markings. Onthe projection of the lip, already referred to, directly above theface on the frieze, is a second face, similar in form and flanked withincised lines. A typical Iroquois jar (pi. xxiv, a) was presented by Mr. RandallD. Sayre, of Milford, Pa., by whom it was found on the southernshore of Minisink island directly opposite the Minisink cemetery.The vessel was practically perfect when found, but while in the CONTR. MUS. AMER. INDIAN VOL. II, NO. 1 , PL. XXVI
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FRAGMENTARY JAR SHOWING A CC M3INATION OF ALGONQUIAN AND IROQUOIS TYPES / H EYE-PEP PER—EXPLORATION OF A M UN SEE CEMETERY 6$ possession of its original owner it was accidently broken. The jaris of the typical globular form; the body is symmetrical and thesurface smoothly finished. A line of short, slanting incisionsencircles the base of the neck. The lip-projections were large androunded, and there was a pronounced rim depression between them.One side of the rim is missing, but there can be no doubt that itbelonged to the two-point type. The main portion of the friezeis decorated with oblique incisions, and above this encircling bandthere is a series of irregular, horizontal lines. Height 7 in.; diameter6j in. Plate xxv, a, illustrates the only perfect jar found in the mound;it is a symmetrical vessel of the four-point type, and has anelaborately decorated frieze, an incurved neck, and a body thattapers gracefully from the shoulder to the semi-conic base. Thesurface of the body is

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