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and forms a kind of neck approach the bottle shape. Of this character is a 

 well-made and elegantly formed specimen from a mound in Tennessee (Fig. 

 286). The original paint, a bright red, has not been totally effaced by time. 

 A somewhat smaller, but very gracefully shaped vessel of this kind, which is 



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ornamented with regular figures formed by circles and other curved lines radi 

 ating from them, was discovered in a Louisiana mound (Fig- 287). This ves 

 sel narrows toward the flat bottom, and its cylindrical neck is provided with 

 a prominent lip. It appears to consist of pure or nearly pure clay, is of a 

 light-brown color passing into black in some places, and has hardly suffered 



