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Moore illustrates a large variety of painted and incised vessels. 

 The majority seem to have no relationship to the Hopewell pot- 

 tery, but a few show very general characteristics, which might have 

 some connection with the pottery from Avoyelles Parish, La. Here 

 again the most outstanding characteristic is the roughened or smooth 

 bands of decorations outlined by deeply incised grooves. 



A flat-bottom jar with a decoration around the body consists of 

 alternating rough and smooth bands, which may represent some part 

 of the swastika. The method of roughening in this case is radically 

 different from any of the aforementioned vessels. It has been ac- 

 complished, seemingly, with a sharpened instrument the exact width 

 of the band, and applied at right angles to the grooves. A jar very 

 similar to this one was found by Harrington ^^ at Site 1, Ozan, Ark. 



Another jar from the Foster Place has been decorated by alter- 

 nating, smooth, punctated, concentric, circular bands, outlined by 

 incised grooves. This punctate roughening technique is similar to 

 the bands on the vessel from Saline Point, Avoyelles Parish, La. 



An unusual form from this mound on the Foster Place has a 

 globular body with a very high straight-sided neck and a small out- 

 flaring rim. The decorations encircling the neck and body are sim- 

 ilar. A wide smooth band outlined by incised grooves forms the S- 

 shaped figure of the swastika, while the rest of the surface has been 

 uniformly roughened with shallow indentations in no particular 

 order. 



In the same mound were numerous other types of vessels — some 

 painted and incised, others engraved and painted — which seem to 

 show no relationship in their manner of decoration to those vessels 

 from Avoyelles Parish, La., or the Hopewell types, but which show 

 a definite relationship to pottery that has been called Caddo ^^ from 

 this region. Since Moore speaks of no apparent stratification in the 

 mound, one may assume that vessels showing resemblances in their 

 decoration to those from Avoyelles Parish might have been found 

 associated with the more typical Caddo ware. Further research 

 may develop this relationship. The vessels herein described from the 

 Foster Place show no direct resemblances with the Hopewell pottery 

 from the upper Mississippi Valley, but are comparable with speci- 

 mens from Avoyelles Parish, La., while the Avoyelles Parish pottery, 

 especially in the case of Marksville, does resemble typical Hopewell 

 pottery. 



Further investigations should throw more light on this interesting 

 distribution. It would seem, however, from the foregoing facts 



'« Harrington, M. R., Indian Notes and Monog. Mus. Amer. Indian, Heye Foundation, 

 New York. p. 144, pi. 51, a, 1920. 



^ For a detailed study of so-called Caddoan archeological sites, see Harrington, M. R., 

 op. cit. These sites also seem to indicate a relationship to some of the other more gen- 

 eral Hopewell characteristics besides pottery. 



