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DAVENPORT ACADEMY OF yATURAI- SCIENCES. 



The cut is taken from my paper in the Third Annual Report of 

 the Bureau of Ethnology.- The handles are indicated by incised 

 lines. The body has been ornamented Ijy pinching u]) the clay 

 between the nails of tlie thumb and forefinger. Locality, Pecan 

 Point, Arkan.sas. 



A good example of the larger jiots is illustrated in Fig. 49. It is 

 engraved a little less than one-fourth the dimensions of the original. 

 The height is 17 inches and the greatest diameter 18 inches. It is 

 very well made. The walls are even and only moderately thick. 

 The dark, unpolished surface is profusely speckled with fragments 

 of white shell. There are four wide, strong handles. The rim and 

 neck are ornamented with encircling lines of finger nail indenta- 

 tions. 



A master-piece of this class of work is shown in Fig. 50. It was 



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Fig. 50. — Pecan Point. — }. 



obtained at Pecan Point. This pot is symmetrical in form and 

 very carefully finished. The color is gray with motlings of dark 



