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Eccentric Forms. — A form of vessel of which civilized men make 

 peculiar use is depicted in Fig. 58. There is a marked resemblance 

 to a common tea-pot. A very few examples have been found, two 

 of which have been engraved for the Third Annual Report of the 

 Bureau of Ethnology. The specimen here given is well made and care- 



FiG. 58. — Arkansas. — \. 



fully finished. The neck is low and wide, and the body is a com- 

 pressed sphere. The spout is placed upon one side and alow knob upon 

 the other. The absence of a handle for grasping indicates that the 

 vessel was probably not intended for boiling water. These charac- 

 ters are uniform in all the specimens that have come to my notice. 



Fig. 59. — Arkansas. — I. 



Two small circular depressions occur on tlie sides of the vessel 

 alternating with the spout and knob and with these features form 

 centres for four rosettes of involute incised lines. The origin of 

 this form of vessel is suggested by a fine red piece from " Missis- 

 siijpi," now in the national collection. The knob is the head of a 



