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POTTERY. 



from the eiFects of time. Ycssels of this description, though resembling each 

 other in general contour, present a great variety of shapes, but they are in 

 most cases less carefully moulded than the two specimens just described. 

 Some are small, measuring only a few inches in height. A specimen from a 

 mound in Tennessee (Fig. 288), by no means the smallest in the collection, is 



290 



289 



288 



CLAY VESSELS (|). 



four inches and a half high, and consists of unpainted clay, Avith the usual atl- 

 mixture of triturated shells. A larger vessel with a wide neck is distinguished 

 by a rather tasteful ornamentation and a reddish brown paint still adhering t:) 

 the clay (Fig. 289, grave near Milledgeville, Georgia). These vessels with 

 high and wide necks may be considered as typical. Of a quite ditierent shape 

 is a flat-bottomed ornamented specimen inwardly cui'ved towards the bottom, 

 and provided with a narrow mutilated neck (Fig 290, mound in Louisiana). 



CLAY VESSELS (|). 



The collection contains a number of large vessels which, on account of their 

 long and narrow necks, present the true bottle shape. A well-preserved speci- 

 men of this kind (Fig. 291) was obtained from a Tennessee mound. The 



