Explanation of Plate 7 



A copy of page 49 of "Sketches of Monuments and Antiques; Found in the 

 Mounds, Tombs and Ancient Cities of America," a portfolio of drawings made 

 by James Plunket in 1856 for Dr. E. H. Davis showing the archeological speci- 

 mens in his collection. The portfolio is in the manuscript room of the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution. 



A, Hopewell vessel from the Mound City group, a few miles north of Chillicothe, 



Ohio. Illustrated in "Ancient Monuments of tne Mississippi Valley" 

 (Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, vol. 1, pi. 46, fig. 2, 1848), 

 and again by W. C. Mills in "Certain Mounds and Village Sites in Ohio" 

 (vol. 3, pt. 4, p. 332, fig. 39, 1922). 



B, Hopewell vessel from Mound 1, 2, or 3 in the Mound City group of Ohio. 



Perhaps never before illustrated. 



C, Hopewell vessel from the Mound City group illustrated in "Ancient Monu- 



ments of the Mississippi Valley" (op. cit., pi. 46, fig. 1). 



D, Hopewell vessel probat;)ly from the Mound City group. Never before illus- 



trated. 



