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ANCIENT POTTERY OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. 



Another example of this form has recently been received at the 

 Davenport Museum. It is in fragments, but was originally nicely fin- 

 ished and painted. Illustrations of others may be seen in the Third 

 Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, and in Contributions to 



Fig. 4-J4. — Buttle of eccentric form : Pecan Point, Arkansas—^. 



the Archaeology of Missouri. The specimen illustrated was found at 

 the foot of a skeleton in a grave at Pecan Point. 



This shape is common to the art of many countries, and was a great 

 favorite in ancient Peru. 



FIG. 445.— Owl-shaped bottlo: Arkansas 



Life forms. — In the introduction to this section, I have indicated the 

 many ways in which the human form is employed in the embellishment 



