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44, e) ; originally there were six of these. The vessels are characteris- 

 tically small, varying in height from 87 to 100 mm., in diameter from 

 92 to 130 mm. Six representative jars from this series are shown in 

 plate 44, which well illustrates the uniformity in shape, size, and 

 general appearance. 



It is probable that among the broken and unrestored vessels in 

 Fowke's collection from the stone vaults, additional types will com© 

 to light. One of these, cataloged as pot 47 from Dawson mound 13, 

 shows cord-roughened surfaces and suggests a more tapering base 

 than the pieces described above. From Dawson mound 5 came a 

 square-mouthed pot with cord-roughened exterior and subconical 

 base; another with square mouth, but having a globular body, is 

 from Granman mound 3 in Gasconade County (Fowke, 1910, p. 9 

 and fig. 1). Both of these mounds were of earth; so far as I could 

 learn, no square-mouthed vessels were found in the vaults, though 

 cord-roughening evidently occurred. 



In addition to the pottery noted above, Fowke recovered at least 

 one elbow pipe of clay from the vault in Dawson mound 11. Out- 

 side the vault, in the same mound, were found two more pipes — one 

 of chalk, the other of clay (Fowke, 1910, figs. 7 and 8). Chipped 

 stone artifacts seem to have included mostly medium to large stemmed 

 projectile points, a few knives, and scrapers. I have no details con- 

 cerning the reported shell and tubular bone beads. 



Results of the excavations conducted by the University of Missouri 

 in this same region parallel in general the findings of Fowke. There 

 are no whole pots, but the sherds may well be from vessels similar to 

 the plain grit-tempered ones from the vaults in Dawson mounds 9, 

 11, and 13. Here again clay elbow pipes, medium to large stemmed 

 points, and worked bone and shell are reported (Berry et al., 1938), 

 as are socketed antler cylinders and a shaft wrench (?). It is sug- 

 gested by these workers (p. 33) that "the main vault, with its cultural 

 contents ... is a component of some phase of the Woodland 

 pattern." 



The cultural material mentioned by Watkins (1883) as coming 

 from a vault in Pike County, Mo., is nowhere described. Neumann's 

 excavations only a few miles away, across the Mississippi River in 

 Adams County, 111., yielded a number of artifacts. These include a 

 cord-roughened grit-tempered pot, two clay elbow pipes, stemmed 

 projectile points, and specimens of ground stone, shell, and bone. 

 Neumann (letter of January 1, 1940), speaking of the pottery, notes 

 that "every piece of it was Woodland ware resembling eastern Algon- 

 kin pottery more than it does the highly developed Hopewell. . . ." 



If the cultural material from stone vaults is scanty, surviving 

 skeletal remains with real comparative value are even rarer. In 



