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6. SMALL BOWL FROM MOUND 4 



Plate 3, B 



This vessel is more brittle than most of the lot, which may be 

 due to its having been subjected to heat more intense or of longer 

 duration. It breaks in rather ragged lines. 



About an inch from the top of the rim is an encircling line of in- 

 dentations made with a round tool one-tenth of an inch in diameter, 

 which was forced into the wall at an oblique angle. The apex 

 points to the right. On the more typical Hopewell vessels the space 

 above these indentations would have been filled with a cross-hatched 

 design of fine incised lines. This area, however, is smooth but not 

 polished. Beneath the incised groove encircling the neck, the rest 

 of the body is decorated with small outlined bands, highly polished, 

 and a uniform roughening outside these areas. The roughening in 

 this case has not been accomplished either by means of the roulette 

 or the zigzag technique but rather by means of a small blunt instru- 

 ment. The polished bands, parallel to one another and vertical to 

 the base, average about 1^^ inches long and one-fourth inch wide. 

 Beneath the globular portion of the vessel is a tapering pedestal-like 

 attachment, around which are four parallel deeply incised grooves. 

 The rest of the surface is polished. Not enough fragments were 

 found to reconstruct the base. 



7. SMALL FLAT-BOTTOM JAR FROM MOUND 4 



Plate 3, C 



Both the interior and exterior surfaces have been polished. The 

 surface can not be cut with a finger nail but only with a sharp- 

 pointed steel instrument. An encircling band, three-eighths of an 

 inch wide, below the rim has been decorated with lightly incised 

 parallel lines at a 45° angle. The usual 45° lines running in the 

 opposite direction completing the cross-hatched design are missing. 

 Around the neck of the vessel is a decoration consisting of two 

 deeply incised parallel grooves about 1% inches long, which ter- 

 minate in a group of six circular indentations in two rows of three 

 each. Covering the entire body are various patterns made by paral- 

 lel incised grooves so close to one another as to give the effect of 

 corrugated concentric triangles and diamond shapes. The narrow 

 bands between the grooves have been highly polished. Two paral- 

 lel encircling grooves separate the decoration from the plain flat 

 bottom. 



Mr. Fowke may have had the sherds of this vessel in mind when 

 he wrote : " The other, of which there was only a part, was differ- 

 ently decorated." ^^ 



"Ibid., p. 416. 



