418 ANCIENT POTTERY OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. 



pressed vertically. A low wide stand is attached to the base. A num- 

 ber of good examples, now in the National Museum, were fouiid iu 

 Arkansas. 



The vase shown in Fig. 438 has also the double body, the vessels 

 copied having been somewhat more elaborately modeled than in the 

 preceding cases. A bottle is set within the mouth of a pot. The neck 

 is high, wide, and flaring and rests upon the back of a rudely modeled 

 frog, which lies extended upon the upper surface of the body. The 

 notched encircling ridge beneath the feet of the reptile represents the 

 rim of the lower vessel, which is a pot with compressed globular body 



FIG. 438.— Bottle: Arkansas.— £. 



and short, wide neck. This vase is of the dark, dead-surfaced ware and 

 is quite plain. Four vertical ridges take the place of handles. I have 

 observed other examples in which two vessels, combined in this way, 

 served as models for the potter; one, a shell set within a cup, is illus- 

 trated in the Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology; an- 

 other is given in Contributions to the Archaeology of Missouri. 



Fig. 439 illustrates a rather graceful form of bottle. It is furnished 

 with a rather high perforated stand or foot, and the body is fluted ver- 

 tically with narrow, widely separated channels. The neck is high and 

 flaring and has a narrow notched collar at the base. 



