ABT. 22 HOPEWELL POTTERY FROM LOUISL^NA — SETZLER 15 



10. FLAT-BOTTOM VASE FROM MOUND 4 



Plate 4, B 



Tempering of this vase may be pulverized potsherds or hard par- 

 ticles of clay. The surface can be cut only with a sharp-pointed steel 

 instrument; a finger nail makes no impression. The rim has been 

 notched and three-eighths of an inch below it are two encircling shal- 

 low grooves. An area between these grooves and those near the base 

 has been decorated with meandering shallow grooves. No rough- 

 ening appears between them. The outside surface has been highly 

 polished. 



11. VASE FROM MOUND 8 



Plate 4, C 



The tempering used in this vessel is either potsherds or clay, mak- 

 ing the fired pot quite soft and breakable in straight lines. 



The decoration somewhat resembles a T with two ascending 

 curved bands beginning near the middle of the vertical bar and 

 terminating near the rim (fig. 5). Here again the main element 

 is outlined by deeply incised grooves with certain areas between 

 the grooves polished and the rest of the vessel roughened with 

 zigzag lines. This method of roughening is best described by Mr. 

 Willoughby ^^ : 



* * * and filled with zigzag patterns wliicli were not made with a 

 roulette, * * * but with a tool more or less gouge-shaped, having a plain 

 or notched edge, which was pressed against the soft clay with a rocking mo- 

 tion, each opposite corner being raised and slightly advanced alternately, the 

 tool not being wholly lifted from the vessel. 



Both polished and roughened bands average about five-eighths of 

 an inch wide. 



Fowke 2^ refers to this vase as follows : " East of this grave was 

 another a little more than 6 feet long. * * * two small pots, 

 one at each end, * * * One was shaped like a common flowerpot 

 and contained one valve of a mussel shell ; * * * " 



12. VASE FROM MOUND 4 



Plate 4, D 



Besides the restored vessels, there is one small vase from Mound 

 4 partly restored. The tempering consists of either pulverized pot- 

 sherds or small particles of clay. The surface is so soft that it can 

 easily be scratched with the finger nail. It is decorated with deeply 

 incised concentric grooves and intervening narrow bands. 



2" Willoughby, C. C, Turner group of earthworks, Hamilton County, Ohio. Papers Pea- 

 body Mus. Amer. Arch, and Ethnol., Harvard Univ., vol. 8, no. 3, p. 92, pi. 23, 1922. 

 " Fowke, G., 44th Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethnol., p. 424, 1928. 



