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.