Show r 17 r. r FOUND ANCIENT INDIAN JAR Rare Specimen Recent Discovered V In New York State R. R Horracks of Fonda N N. Y while stalking deer during the last hunting season at the Little Falls of ot the upper upper upper up up- per w waters of the near Lake Piseco caught In a heavy downpour downpour down down- pour of rain was obliged to seek seel shelter from the storm under the ledges of the Little Falls While While- sit sitting ting tang there his attention was attracted to what seemed to bo boa a round brown bowlder p partly covered with moss Carelessly striking it It gave forth a hollow sound His curiosity being excited he dug away the earth with his hunting knife and soon laid bare barea a symmetrically formed earthen jar The The jar jar stands ten inches high At Atts its ts largest circumference it measures measures thirty hirty in inches and at Its smallest twenty wenty inches The circumference of the he top or mouth of the jar measures t four twenty inches The vessel on the Inside bears signs of use use but the outside shows no trace of fire as Is usual in Indian jars The bottom ottom Is rounded The ornamentation around the top is of the the usual style of or of orthe the Mohawk l pottery that pottery that is a series Aeries of straight and diagonal lines The Th jar still bears the moss that had gathered on the the- rounded bottom that was was exposed ab above ve the earth The rhe jar is a well preserved specimen specimen specimen I men of Mohawk pottery and is is' rare on account of the shape of the top which Is cut In three curves curves forming three points which give it a triangular lar ar appearance Amstar dam Morning Sentinel |