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A vessel similar in its general manner of design but different in 

 regard to the method used in roughening was found b}^ Harrington ^^ 

 at the Washington site, Hempstead County, southwestern Arkansas. 

 Moore's second vessel, from Anderson Landing, has incised 

 cross-hatching and cone-shaped punctations encircling the vessel 

 just below the rim. Repeated three times around the body is the con- 

 ventionalized design of a bird, the head resembling that of an eagle. 

 This design is made by a smooth band outlined by two incised 

 grooves. No evidence of roughening appears, but the bird somewhat 



resembles the figures 

 on four of the Marks- 

 viile vessels (pis. 1 ; 2, 

 A,B;3,D). As to the 

 tempering, Moore ^^ 

 states simply that 

 neither of the above 

 two vessels is shell 

 tempered. 



From the upper 

 mound on Saline 

 Point (fig. 6), Avoy- 

 elles Parish, La. — a 

 few miles northeast 

 of the Marksville 

 works — on Red River, 

 Moore found evi- 

 dence of cremated 

 bones and numerous 

 potsherds and ves- 

 sels.^° With the ex- 

 ception of the jar, 

 which he illustrates 

 in Figure 6, page 499, 

 one would hardly con- 

 sider them of the Hope- 

 well type. However, 

 since all came from 

 the same mound, which had no apparent stratification, they might 

 possibly be regarded as variations from the true Hopewell forms. 



The design on the vessel shown by Moore as Figure 6, page 499, 

 contains tw^o distinct Hopewell traits, namely, cross-hatched incised 



^ Harrington, M. R., Certain Caddo sites in Arkansas. Indian Notes and Monog. 

 Mus. Amer. Indian, Heye Foundation, New York, p. 144, pi. 51, b. 1920. 



» Moore, C. B., Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 13, pt. 2, p. 586, 1908. 



^ Moore, C. B., Aboriginal sites on Red River. Journ. Acad. Nat. Scl. Philadelphia, vol. 

 14, pp. 498-500, 1912. 



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-Sites from which pottery is compared with that 

 found at Marksville, La. 



