Aboriginal pottery of the Eastern United States

Aboriginal pottery of the Eastern United States

Report as Director of the Bureau of American Ethnology. The preliminary portion comprises an account of the opera- tions of the Bureau during the fiscal year, and the further development of a classification of ethnic science that has grown out of the Bureau's work in the last two decades; the remainder consists of a memoir on the native pottery of the eastern United States, which embodies briefly the results of many years' archeologic exploration by the Bureau, supple- mented by study of all the important collections of aboriginal American potteiy in the United States.

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TWENTIETH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY TO THE SECRETARY OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL

CONTENTS

REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR

INTRODUCTION

FIELD RESEARCH AND EXPLORATION

OFFICE RESEARCH

COLLECTIONS

PROPERTY

FINANCIAL STATEMENT

CHARACTERIZATION OF ACCOMPANYING PAPER

TECHNOLOGY, OR THE SCIENCE OF INDUSTRIES

SOCIOLOGY, OR THE SCIENCE OF INSTITUTIONS

PHILOLOGY, OR THE SCIENCE OF ACTIVITIES DESIGNED FOR EXPRESSION

SOPHIOLOGY, OR THE SCIENCE OF ACTIVITIES DESIGNED TO GIVE INSTRUCTION

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS OF THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY

ABORIGINAL POTTERY OF THE EASTERN UNITED STATES

PREFACE

Geographic Grouping

DISTRIBUTION OF POTTERY

QUANTATIVE DISTRIBUTION

MANNER OF OCCURRENCE

CHRONOLOGY

FUNCTIONAL GROUPING

USES OF POTTERY

SALT-MAKING VESSELS

POTTERY OF THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY

POTTERY OF THE GULF COAST

POTTERY OF THE WEST COAST

ANIMAL FIGURES

TOBACCO PIPES

POTTERY OF THE SOUTH APPALACHIAN PROVINCE

POTTERY OF THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC PROVINCE

POTTERY OF THE IROQUOIAN PROVINCE

POTTERY OF THE NEW JERSEY-NEW ENGLAND PROVINCE

POTTERY OF THE NORTHWEST

INDEX