POTTERY AND ARTICLES OF CLAY. 



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of fine clay, burned, and in model somewhat resembles the ancient pipkin. Before 

 it was fractured, it probably terminated in a representation of the head of some 

 animal. 



Fig. 74 is of precisely the same material with that last described. Besides the 

 two handles, it has four strong knobs at right angles to each other, by which it 

 was probably designed the vessel might be suspended. 



All the vessels from this locality are composed of clay, compounded as already 

 described, and baked ; they are of small size, the largest containing but little more 

 than one quart. They fall far short of those from the mounds in fineness and 

 elegance of finish, though superior to the general manufacture of the Indians. 

 They resemble more closely the coarse but very well moulded pottery of Florida 

 and the South-west. 



A few terra cottas have been found in the mounds ; they are said to be abundant 

 at the South, where they are represented to possess a great variety of forms. In 

 material they are identical with the finer specimens of pottery already described, 

 and like them seem generally to have been baked. 



Fig. 7.5. This unique relic was ploughed up, on the banks of the Yazoo river, 

 in the State of Mississippi. It is composed of clay, smoothly moulded and burned, 

 and represents some animal, couchant, lips corrugated and exhibiting its teeth as if 

 in anger or defiance. It seems to have been used as a pipe. The attitude is alike 

 natural and spirited.* 



* Jn the oabinot of James MnBRinK, Esq, 



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