ANCIENT POTTERY OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEV. iSl 



whole surface of the vessel is decorated with characteristic designs 

 in red and white upon a warm gray ground. A stepped figure, re- 

 sembling the Pueblo emblematic " rim of the sky," encircles the neck, 

 and semicircular figures in white appear on opposite sides at the top 



Fig. 84. 



and base. The body .is covered with scroll work in broad red lines, 

 the spaces being filled in with white in the form of a thick earthy 

 paste. Each of the legs has one-half red and the other white. 



Fig. 85. — I'ecan Point, Ark. — }.. 

 The vessel illustrated in Fig. 84, is of the ordinary, dark, polished 



