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Title: Indians of Manhattan Island and vicinity /
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Skinner, Alanson, 1886-1925.
Subjects: Manhattan Indians Indians of North America
Publisher: (New York) : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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e, with or withouta series of small humps or projections at intervals, Fig. g. The Iroquoian types are as follow?: 8. Mouth rounded, collar or rim heavy, with humps or peaks atintervals, angle notched, neck constricted and bottom rounded; canstand by itself, an unknown feature in local Algonkian vessels, Fig. h. 9. Same as number 7, but with mouth square, and humps at everyangle. Much less common than in the preceding, Fig. i. In size, the vessels range from small toy-like pots to jars of very largecapacity. In general they appear to have been made by the coil process,and are tempered with pounded stone or fine gravel, mica or burned or INDIANS OF MANHATTAN ISLAND 37 pounded shell. Sherds showing tempering by fiber or some other sub-stance that disappeared in firing are found rarely. When vessels werecracked or broken, a series of holes was bored opposite each other oneither side of the break and the parts laced togel her. rendering the vessel capable of storing dry objects, at least.
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K i POTTERY FORMS OF THE COASTAL ALGONKIN Life forms are exceedingly rare in local ceramic art. From Man-hattan Island and Van Cortlandt Park, there come a number of speci-mens showing incised human (?) faces. rl nis is not an uncommon formon Iroquoian sites in Cenl ral and Western New York. (>n the BowmansBrook site at Mariners Harbor. Staten Island, fragments of a typicallyAlgonkian pot were obtained which bore at intervals rude raised faces.With the sole exception of a rather well-modeled clay face, apparentlybroken from the bowl of a pipe found at Port Washington, bong Island. 38 AMERICAN MUSEUM GUIDE LEAFLETS by Mr. M. R. Harrington, this brief statement concludes the list of pot-tery life forms reported from this area, although others may yet be foundhere, since some interesting objects have been collected in immediatelyadjacent territory. The forms of decoration consist of stamping with a stamp, roulette,or paddle, and incising. Occasionally, but very rarely, stucco workoccu

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