148 BULLETIN 18 3, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



surface of this rather crudely shaped and undecorated vessel has 

 numerous pits suggesting leached-out shell. No other tempering ma- 

 terial is visible. This bottle was lying near the center of the mound, 

 under 20 inches of earth. Since the neck was lower than the body, 

 the interior was free of earth. No burial was associated with this 

 bottle but a strong triangular knife was near it. 



"Pot 1345 is carelessly fashioned [pi. 42, a]. It is a shouldered 

 vessel with a hemispherical underbody. Dents and bulges spoil the 

 conformity of the shoulder and flat upper body, which terminates in 

 a slightly flaring irregular rim and two opposing handles or tabs 

 that flare outward from the rim. The pot is 9.5 cm. high. The body 

 diameter is 13.8 cm., neck diameter is 10.7 cm., and thickness of walls 

 is 4 mm. The paste is gray, showing no tempering, but ceils and 

 surface pits indicate leached-out shell. The brown and buff slip coat 

 is worn and chipped away on a third of the surface. Part of the 

 interior shows crisscross striations. Incised lines on the upperbody 

 on two sides indicate an attempt to draw pictures. One seems to 

 be a long-tailed quadruped, but the picture is too crude to determine 

 what was represented. This pot was found 8 inches from the surface, 

 inverted and 11 feet from the center in the southeast part of the mound. 

 It was not associated with a burial. 



"Pot 1344 is a very symmetrical vessel [pi. 42, h]. Inside and out 

 it is smooth except for flat pits evidently caused by leached-out shell. 

 The body is hemispherical beneath a rounded shoulder. A slight 

 neck is made by a very low vertical rim. From the top of opposite 

 sides of this rim, two small well-made handles loop over and join the 

 rounded upperbody. This pot has a fine even gray paste, and the 

 exterior shades from dark brown to gray to light buff. The diam- 

 eter at the shoulder is 14.5 cm. ; at the neck it is 10.5 cm. Height is 

 10.3 cm, ; walls are 4 mm. thick. This pot was sitting upright near 

 a burial, 20 inches from the surface and in a very hard mixture of 

 earth, ashes, and charcoal. The location was 7 feet southeast of the 

 center. A small stemmed point was found in this same hard mix- 

 ture. 



"No. 1347, of about the same size as the preceding pot, is not quite 

 so symmetrical [pi. 42, d]. The hemispherical underbody, round 

 shoulder, and upper body terminate in a recurved rim from which 

 two loop handles join the upper body. It is a well-made vessel with 

 walls 6 mm. thick, a shoulder diameter of 13.8 cm., a neck diameter of 

 10.5 cm., and height of 10 cm. Seven lightly incised figures, shaped 

 like an inverted letter U, decorate the upper body at intervals around 

 the pot. They extend from the neck to 5 or 6 cm, below. . . . Inside 

 are horizontal striations, some of which are deep and broad. The 

 paste is light gray and shows cells. The pitted surface ranges in 



