Proceedings and Collections of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society Volume 13

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ... NORTH APPALACHIAN INDIAN POTTERY.* By Chr1stopher Wren, Curator of Archeology of this Society. READ BEFORK THE WYOMING HISTORICAL AND GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, APRIL, 1913. In January, 1905, the writer read a paper before this Society on The Aboriginal Pottery of the Wyoming Valley Region, which was printed in Vol. IX of Proceedings and Collections. In that paper the general features of the baked clay ware of the region were discussed, and it was illustrated with fragments only of the pottery, no whole vessels, not already illustrated, being available. Since 1905 further attention has been given to the study of the subject, and the results of such study are given in this paper. The larger field of the North Appalachian region is taken in, which, roughly speaking, may be defined as the eastern two-thirds of the State of Pennsylvania, northern New Jersey and several of the southern tier of counties of the State of New York, avoiding, however, what is understood to be strictly Iroquoian territory. The illustrations are very largely of whole vessels, and the exhibit, with but few exceptions, includes all the complete specimens known to be in the region by the writer, at this time. They number about thirty-five examples. *Copyright by Christopher Wren. 1914. EARTHENWARES. The general subject of mankind's work in burned and baked clays and earths is a very interesting one, and we have only to look at a well set dining table to be impressed with the important place which such wares occupy in our domestic economy. The inclination to play in the dirt' shows itself at a very early age in most children, in their love of making mud pies and of building houses and trees and ships, which seem very real to their own minds. This taste may be a harking back to the period in ...