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anders the middle of the band and the intervening triangles are 

 filled in with groups of straight lines. All the lines are well drawn 

 and appear to have been cut with a sharp point in the dry clay. 



Bottle-shaped vases are not found to any great extent outside of the 

 Mississippi Valley, and are quite rare in Alabama, Georgia and 

 Florida. 



The piece illustrated in Fig. 103 is from Mississippi, and in most 

 respects is identical with the ware of the Gulf Province. The paste 

 is silicious, fine grained and quite hard. The color is slightly fer- 

 ruginous and clouded with fire stains from the baking. The body 

 is ornamented with the engraved figure of a bird apparently in- 



FlG. 103. — Mississippi. — =1. 



tended for an eagle. The head with its notched and strongly curved 

 beak, and conventionalized crest, occupies one side. The wings 

 may be seen at the right and left, while the tail appears on the side 

 opposite the head. The flattened base of the vessel occupies the place 

 of the body. The lines have been scratched with a sharp point in 

 the hardened clay. Certain spaces in the plumes, wings, and tail 

 are filled in with reticulated lines. 



The bottle presented in Fig. 104 is embellished with a rather re- 

 markable design in color. The material is fine grained and without 

 admixture of shell. The color of the paste is a pale, salmon gray. 

 The surface is coated with a thick slip or enamel of whitish clay, 

 very fine grained and smooth ; upon this the design has been 

 painted, not in the thick earthy color employed farther north, but 



