Ralph
S. Ives while walking across the premises of Robert Smith below Roxbury village
recently, found a piece of Indian pottery of unquestioned historic interest
and value. It was made of clay and is part of a former
vessel used by the Mahigan Indians, a branch of the Delawares, as a cooking
utensil for food. The pottery was
blackened in the inside, caused by dropping heated stones into the water to
make it sufficiently hot to cook the food placed in it. Many Indian relics, stone pestles for pounding corn, and other remnants of
articles used by Indians have been found in that vicinity.
Otsego Farmer, 4 July 1919, page 1
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