176 DAVEXPORT ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES. 



We have, in Fi^. 76, a good example of bottle shaped vessels, 

 the neck of which is wide and short and the body much compressed 

 vertically. There are a number of duplicates of it in the museum. 

 The specimen illustrated is in the national collection and was 

 obtained in Arkansas. It is a iiandsome vase, symmetrical in form, 

 quite dark in color, and highly polished. The upper surface of the 

 body is ornamented with a collar formed of a broad fillet of clay, or 

 rather perhaps two fillets, the pointed ends of which unite on 

 opposite sides of the vase. 



Fig. 77. — Arkansas. — i. 



Modifications of the simple outline of bottles exhibit many 

 interesting eccentricities. 



Compound forms are not unusual and consist generally of imita- 

 tions of two vessels, the one superimposed upon or set in the mouth 

 of another. A good example in the ordinary plain dark ware is 

 given in Fig. 77. Similar shapes are suggested by lobed forms of 

 the gourd. 



Other examples may be seen in which there is only a gentle 

 swelling of the neck, Ijut all gradations occur between this condi- 

 tion and that in which two fully formed vessels appear. 



A very usual form is illustrated in Fig. 78. Below the overhang- 

 ing lip the neck contracts and then expands until quite fiiU, and at the 

 base contracts again. This feature corresi)onds to the upper vessel 



