ARCHEOLOGICAL INVESTlGATIOISrS IN MISi&OURI 95 



Artifacts from the burial ground were not numerous, but in all 

 essential respects they closely resemble those found in the nearby 

 village site. These resemblances, together with the proximity of 

 cemetery to village, and the homogeneous character of the material re- 

 mains from the village, definitely establish the common ethnic affilia- 

 tions and contemporaneity of the habitational and burial areas. 



POTTERY 



Three pottery vessels, one complete and two restored, are available 

 from the burial ground. The effigy bowl shown in plate 32, a, intact 

 except for local peeling of the slip, was found about 12 inches east 

 of stake 60 at a depth of approximately 24 inches. It has a flat base 

 curving up into vertical walls which terminate in a rounded undeco- 

 rated lip. On one side the modeled head of a bird (?) rises vertically 

 to look away from the bowl. Directly opposite, the tail is represented 

 by a rounding tab 4 cm. wide, which extends horizontally outward to 

 a distance of 2 cm. The surface color is predominantly buff or dun, 

 but a few spots have a bright orange cast, and the base is mottled with 

 dark gray firing clouds. Where the slip has scaled off, the paste is 

 seen to vary likewise in color. Visible inclusions consist largely or 

 entirely of crushed shell. Exclusive of the head, the bowl is 11 cm. 

 high and about 15 cm. in diameter, and walls average 5 mm. in thick- 

 ness. The vessel stood upright 12 inches beneath the fragmentary 

 right humerus of burial 12, but it was not possible to determine 

 whether corpse and pot had been interred together. There was no 

 clear evidence of a grave pit that might have held both. 



An incomplete and very fragile little pot lay directly under stake 

 50E4, a few inches from a skull designated as burial 66. This was 

 the easternmost of four poorly preserved calvaria lying close together 

 and representing, possibly, the surviving vestiges of as many skeletons 

 interred side by side. The pot is of a variable gray color, with a rough 

 uneven surface. It has a hemispherical underbody, a rounding shoul- 

 der, sloping upperbody, and a low rounded rim (pi. 32, c) . Two small 

 loop handles, actually little more than horizontally pierced ears, extend 

 from the lip to a point just above the shoulder. There are traces of a 

 rude pattern of horizontal chevrons on the upperbody. Surface pit- 

 tings remain where the shell tempering has been leached out. The 

 vessel has a diameter of 10,2 cm., a height of 5.6 cm., and an interior 

 orifice diameter of about 6.5 cm. 



A third vessel has been reconstructed from two sherds found near 

 burial 9 in square 80E2. One sherd lay 6 inches above the chin ; the 

 other was about the same distance from, and on a level with, the right 

 elbow. These indicated a round-bottomed jar, shouldered, with con- 

 stricted neck, vertical rim, and a rounded uneven lip (pi. 32, h). A 



