VESSELS IMITATING AMIMAL FORMS. 



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freedom in the production of any form that superstition or fancy hap- 

 pened to select. 



The artist probably did not follow nature with great accuracy in all the 

 details of species and varieties, but some definite model must have been 



Fig. 376. — Frog-shaped bowl : Craigsbead Poiut, Arkansas.— J 



in view, in nearly all cases, and such characters as came to be re- 

 garded as essential to that creature were never lost sight of, consistency 



Fig. 377. — Frog-shaped howl : Pecan Poiut, Arkansas. — £. 



being a most notable characteristic of the art of a savage or barbaric 

 people. 



Fig. 378. — Animal-shaped bowl : Arkansas. — J. 



The sun-fish was a favorite model, but its form was generally em- 

 ployed in vessels with upright necks. A number of examples occur 

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