Note 3 — Chapter I · - ETHNICAL PERIODS.

Pottery has been found in aboriginal mounds in Oregon within a few years past.—Foster’s Pre-Historic Races of the United States, I, 152. The first vessels of pottery among the Aborigines of the United States seem to have been made in baskets of rushes or willows used as moulds which were burned off after the vessel hardened.—Jones’s Antiquities of the Southern Indians, p. 461. Prof. Rau’s article on Pottery. Smithsonian Report, 1866, p. 352.