BOTTLES WITH ENGRAVED FICxURES. 



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of incised scrolls are linked, ami of two additional rows of depressions, 

 one above and the otber below, through which parallel lines are drawn. 



Many other interesting illustrations of the simpler forms could be 

 given, but nearly all are very similar in their more important features 

 to the examples that precede or follow. 



As skilled as these peoples were in modeling life forms, and in engrav- 

 ing geometric devices, they seem rarely to have attempted the linear rep- 

 resentation of life forms. We have, however, two very good examples. 



Fig. 410.— Engraved bottle: Arkansas. 



The first of these is shown in outline in Fig. 410. It is a large bottle 

 embellished with four rude drawings of the human figure, executed 

 with a sharp point in the soft clay. Height of vessel, eight inches. 



The work is characteristic of a very early stage of art. The figures 

 could be duplicated in the work of the ancient Pueblos, aud in the picto- 



Fig. 411— Engraved bottle: Arkansas.— J. . 



graphic art of many of our savage tribes. They are probably derived 

 from syinbolie art, and possibly relate to the guardians of the four 

 points of the compass, or to some similar mythical characters. 

 The work upon the neat little bottle, presented in Fig. 411, is of the 

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