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The Occurrence of Coiled Pottery in New York State

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Charles Fairbanks*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago

Extract

There has been considerable discussion recently as to whether or not the coiling method was in use in the northeastern Woodlands area. There are two sources of information: early written reports of settlers, missionaries, and others, and archaeological material. Holmes reports the observations of Mooney and Palmer among the Catawba, who used the coil method. Sagard, a French missionary, described the the Huron as using the paddle and anvil method. Parker found a section of a coil in an Erie village in western New York, and several partial sections have been found since. Griffin summarizes the ethnological and archaeological evidence and describes his attempts to produce fractures along the lines of the coils. Little material on sherds showing horizontal breaks along the coils is available at the present.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1937

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References

104 Holmes, W. H., Aboriginal Pottery of Eastern United States, 20th. Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, p. 54, 1903 Google Scholar.

105 Sagard, T. G., Histoire du Canada, Paris, p. 260, 1886 Google Scholar.

106 Parker, A. C., Excavations in an Erie Village and Burial Site at Ripley, Chautauqua County, New York, New York State Museum Bulletin 117, pl. 25, fig. 1, 2, and 3, 1907 Google Scholar.

107 Griffin, James B., Aboriginal Methods of Pottery Manufacture in the Eastern United States, Pennsylvania Archaeologist, Milton, Penna., Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 19–24, April, 1935 Google Scholar.

108 Holmes, op. cit., p. 54.