ART. 22 HOPEWELL POTTERY FROM LOUISM.NA SBTZLER 17 



The two unidentified baked clay objects (pi. 6, B) are similar to speci- 

 mens in the United States National Museum found by C. B. Moore 

 in a kitchen midden at Poverty Point, West Carroll Parish, north- 

 eastern Louisiana. Associated with a burial on the Schwing Place 

 (fig. 6), Iberville Parish, in the south-central part of the State, was 

 a cache of 32 clay objects.^^ 



Mound 15, on the same side of the river as Mounds 4 and 8 and 

 only a short distance from Mound 8 (fig. 1), seems to have been 

 constructed by an entirely different group of Indians possessing a 

 culture radically different from the builders of Mounds 4 and 8. 

 Fowke ^'^ says : 



* * * broken pottery with various designs incised or impressed, were 

 profusely scattered loose in the earth. One small potsherd [pi. 6, F] had a dec- 

 oration in red resembling those of Arkansas. Diligent search was made for 

 other pieces like it, but none could be found. It was almost useless to hunt 

 for anything in the mud. 



The sherds (pi. 6, D, E, F) resemble the ware found throughout the 

 Southeast, except D and E, which occur only along the Gulf coast. 

 All of them, however, are unrelated in decoration and tempering 

 to the pottery found in Mounds 4, 8, and 10 or in the upper Mis- 

 sissippi region. 



HOPEWELL POTTERY FROM OTHER SOUTHEASTERN SITES 



To enlarge upon the possibility that a basic Hopewell culture 

 might have originated in the South and a branch spread or migrated 

 and later developed in the upper Mississippi Valley, it seems impera- 

 tive that the vessels from Mounds 4 and 8 be compared with pottery 

 from the same region (fig. C). C. B. Moore obtained pottery from 

 mounds in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas, which is pertinent. 

 M. R. Harrington found pottery in Arkansas, which is also com- 

 parable. Here again I have had to dejDcnd entirely on illustrations 

 and descriptions for my examples. 



From Anderson Landing, on the Sunflower River, Sharkey County, 

 Miss., Moore-' obtained two vessels that show definite Hopewell 

 characteristics in their decoration. One flat-bottom jar has four 

 lobes. Just below the rim is a cross-hatched band with an encir- 

 cling line of indentations. The decoration over the body of the 

 vessel consists of narrow, smooth bands outlined by deeply incised 

 grooves and the rest of the surface uniformly roughened by means 

 of a roulette. 



» Moore, C. B., Some aboriginal sites in Louisiana and in Arkansas. Journ. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 16, pp. 15 ; 72, pi. 2 ; 73-74, 1913. 



28 Fowke, G., 44th Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethnol., p. 430, 1928. 



^ Moore, C. B., Certain mounds of Arkansas and Mississippi. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Philadelphia, vol. 13, pt. 2, pp. 586-588, figs. 3-5, 1908. 



