ART. 22 HOPEWELL POTTERY FROM LOUISIANA — SETZLER 19 



lines just below the rim and the conventionalized birds. The two 

 parallel grooves and six indentations repeated around the neck are 

 similar to two vessels from Marksville (pis. 2, C; 3, C). 



A hemispherical bowl, with an unusual design,^^ was found in the 

 same mound. The surface is divided into two parts by a wide 

 smooth band outlined by two incised grooves. The design is re- 

 peated twice on the vessel. It consists of straight and angular bands 

 containing punctations outlined by incised grooves. Such rough- 

 ening is unusual on the Hopewell vessels and on those from Marks- 

 ville, but may be a clue to either the relation or spread of this tech- 

 nique in other southeastern pottery vessels. 



Associated with a skeleton, in an excavated pit of a cemetery on 

 the Johnson Place,^^ Avoyelles Parish, La., was a fiat-bottom vessel. 

 Its straight sides are covered with deeply incised grooves so closely 

 spaced that only a very narrow smooth band remains between them. 

 The decoration consisting of narrow smooth bands is similar to that 

 on two jars and the fragment of a vase from Marksville (pis. 3, C, D ; 

 4, D). 



In a mound located on the Mayer Place, 1 mile southwest of the 

 Johnson Place, a vessel was found ^^ that had been decorated with 

 conventionalized birds having eagle heads. The figures are again 

 outlined by deeply incised grooves. This is the fifth vessel from 

 Avoyelles Parish upon which conventionalized birds have been used 

 for decoration. 



Burial No. 8, in the Laborde Place mound,^* contained four ves- 

 sels and several potsherds. One small hemispherical bowl resem- 

 bles in decoration the aforementioned vessels only in the outlining of 

 curved bands by deeply incised grooves. Below the two parallel 

 encircling grooves near the rim is a design somewhat like the S- 

 shaped line forming one-half of a swastika. The unusual feature 

 of this decoration is that instead of roughening the area either in- 

 side or outside the grooves, for the desired contrast, the bands be- 

 tween the grooves had been painted with a red pigment. The in- 

 side of the bowl contained a fairly good coating of red pigment. 

 This might be carrying the similarity too far, since no applied pig- 

 ment has ever been reported on Hopewell pottery from the North. 

 Yet the scroll design formed by the outlined bands shows some rela- 

 tionship to the swastika design on the vessel from Saline Point, and 

 the vessels from Saline Point did embody true Hopewell character- 

 istics. 



Leaving the parish in which Marksville is located and considering 

 the Foster Place ^' along Red River, in Lafayette County, Ark., 



21 Ibid., p. 500. »- Ibid., p. 503. ^ Ibid., pp. 591-619. 



32 Ibid., p. 502. 34 Ibid., p. 506. 



