410 ANCIENT POTTERY OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. 



same in finish and color. The face also has the semblance of death, but 

 the features are different, possessing very decided Indian characteris- 

 tics. There is no tattooing. 



All of these heads, including also some of those in the National Mu- 

 seum, are much alike in conception and execution. 



This fact will be forcibly impressed upon the mind by a study of Fig. 

 423, which represents a specimen recently exhumed at Pecan Point by 

 agents of the Bureau of Ethnology. In size, form, color, finish, mod- 

 eling of features, and expression, this head closely resembles the one 

 first described. The work is not quite so carefully executed and the 

 head has probably not such pronounced individuality. The curious 

 device that in the other example appeared near the left eye here occurs 

 on both sides. The lower part of the face is elaborately engraved. 

 Three lines cross the upper lip and cheeks, reaching to the ear ; a band 

 of fret-like devices extends across the mouth to the base of the ears, and 

 another band filled in with oblique reticulated lines passes around the 

 chin and along the jaws. The ears are perforated as in the other case 

 and the septum of the nose is partially broken away as if it had once 

 held a ring. A perforated knob has occupied the top of the forehead 

 as in the other case. The face is coated with a light yellowish gray slip, 

 and the remainder of the surface is red. 



Fig. 424. — Head-shaped vase: Arkansas. - 

 [Thibault Collection.] 



Fig. 424 illustrates a very interesting specimen of the red pottery of 

 Arkansas. It belongs to the collection of Mr. Thibault, of Little Rock, 

 and was obtained from a mound in the vicinity of that city. The body 

 is slightly lenticular and the human face, which is modeled upon one 



