24 THE PROBLEM OF THE OHIO MOUNDS. 



cruses for bokliiig beai\s oil;"' also that they colored them a beautiful 

 red by using ocher, which becomes red after burning. 



As is well known, the bottle-shaped vase with a long neck is the 

 typical form of clay vessels found in the mounds of Arkansas and 

 southeastern Missouri, and is also common in the mounds and stone 

 grav'es of middle Tennessee. Those colored or ornamented with red 

 are often found in the mounds of the former sections. It is worthy of 

 notice in this connection that the two localities — near Saint Genevieve, 

 Mo., and near Shawneetown, 111 — where so many fragments of large 

 clay vessels used in making salt have been found, were occupied for a 

 considerable time by the Shawnee Indians, As will hereafter be shown, 

 there are reasons for believing this pottery was made by the Shawnees. 



The stateuieut so often made that tlie mound pottery, especially that 

 of Ohio, far excels that of the Indians is not Justitied by the facts. 



Much more evidence of like tenor might be presented here, as, for 

 example, the numerous instances in which articles of European manu- 

 facture have been found in mounds where their presence could not be 

 attributed to intrusive burials, but the limits of the paper will not 

 a(bnit of this. I turn, therefore, to the problem before us, viz, "Who 

 were the authors of the tyi)ical works of Ohio?" 



As before stated, the answer is, ''These works are attributable in 

 part at least to the ancestors of the modern Cherokees." 



As a connecting link between what has been given and the direct evi- 

 dence that the Cherokees were mound-builders, and as having an im- 

 portant bearing upon both questions, the evidence derived from the 

 box-shaped stone graves is introduced at this point. 



'Hist. La., p. 79. 



