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13. MINIATURE VASE FROM MOUND 4 

 Plate 4, E 



The outside surface exhibits a certain roughness due to particles 

 of either potsherd-tempering or unpulverized clay. It can be 

 scratched with a finger nail. Except for minutely incised lines or 

 scratches running in all directions, there is no decoration. The 

 interior surface shows numerous shallow cracks, perhaps due to ex- 

 pansion and contraction when fired. On opposite sides of the vessel 

 near the rim are two small holes through which a thong or cord 

 may have been passed to suspend it. 



The two small holes make possible our identification of this vessel 

 from Fowke's report - : " In the east wall of the trench, 10 feet out, 

 2 feet up, was an infant burial ; with it was a ' flowerpot ' vase less 

 than 2 inches high, with two small holes near the top for suspen- 

 sion ; * * * " 



14. BOWLS FROM MOUND 4 

 Plate 4, F-H 



Three partially restored bowls from Mound 4 are made of rather 

 flaky clay, the tempering being either pulverized potsherds or hard 

 particles of clay. The inside and outside surfaces of the three speci- 

 mens can be scratched with the finger nail. Since the vessels are 

 not decorated they are very likely utilitarian or culinary bowls. 



The variety of rim sherds from Mounds 4 and 8 is great. Enough 

 of the decoration below the rim is present to indicate the similarity 

 in decoration to that of the restored vessels illustrated. 



Associated with the pottery from Mounds 4 and 8, Mr. Fowke 

 found the following artifacts: Monitor or platform pipe of clay 

 from Mound 4 (pi. 5, A) ; the fragmentary base of another platform 

 pipe from the same mound (pi. 5, B) ; three projectile points (pi. 

 5, C.) ; sandstone rubbing or smoothing stones (pi. 5, D) ; impressions 

 in clay of a vertically plaited matting consisting of over-two-under- 

 two technique from Mound 8^' (])1. 5, E). 



The few artifacts from Mound 10 (pi, 6, A-C) show no resem- 

 blance either to the material from Mounds 4, 8, and 15, or to the 

 general Hopewell culture. Mr. Fowke ^* describes the excavation of 

 these artifacts as follows: 



The usual pieces of pottery, cliarcoal and fliut were found. There were 

 also two small pieces of grooved burned clay similar to those occurring so 

 abundantly north of Delhi; a small much used hammer or flint chipper of 

 yellowish quartz, and a symmetrical, highly polished plummet made of magnetic 

 iron ore. 



22 Ibid., p. 420. 



23 For similar matting from an Ohio Hopewell mound, see Mills, W. C, Exploration of 

 Mound City group. Certain mounds and village sites in Ohio, vol. 3, pt. 4, p. 382, fig. 81, 

 1922. 



2* Fowke, G., 44th Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethnol., pp. 425, 1928. 



