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and forms a kind of neck approach the bottle shape. Of this chai-actcr is a 

 well-made and elegantly formed specimen from a monnd in Tennessee (Fig. 

 286). The original paint, a bright red, has not been totally effaced by time. 

 A somewhat smaller, but very gracefnlly shaped vessel of this kind, which is 



CLAY VESSELS (-}). 



ornamented with regnlar fignres formed by circles and other curved lines radi- 

 ating from them, was discovered in a Louisiana moimd (Fig. 287). This ves- 

 sel narroAvs toward the flat bottom, and its cylindrical neck is provided Avith 

 a prominent lip. It appears to consist of pure or nearly pure clay, is of a 

 light-brown color passing into black in some places, and has hardly suffered 



