VASES FROM THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI. 



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vase tastefully decorated with indented lines about the neck, and a 

 band of decoration consisting of broad, plain, sinuous bands upon the 

 body, comes from a mound in Scott County, Iowa. Height six inches, 

 diameter the same. The rims of all these vessels are square on the 

 edge, showing the full thickness of the walls. 



A very interesting vessel obtained by Captain Hall from a mound in 

 Wisconsin is represented by a number of large fragments, probably 

 comprising about one-half of the walls. It must have been somewhat 

 larger than the vase given in Fig. 456, and in a general way resembles it 

 closely. It appears to be more pointed below than the other, and has a 

 slightly flaring rim. The walls are one-fourth of an inch thick. The paste 

 is coarse and is tempered with sand, as in the cases already described. 

 The lower part of the body is covered with nearly vertical cord marks. 

 The upper part was smoothed, rather rudely, for the reception of addi- 

 tional decoration, which consists of several bands of indented figures. 



Fig. 457. — Vaso: Wisconsin. — £. 

 [National Museum.) 



The principal implement used was apparently a stiff cord, or a. slender 

 osier wrapped with line thread, which has been laid on and impressed 

 with the fingers, forming nearly continuous encircling lines. Bands of 

 .short oblique lines made in the same manner also occur. Just below 

 the margin there is a line of annular indentations made from the exte- 

 rior, leaving nodes on the inside — the reverse of the treatment noticed 

 in the vessel already illustrated. Fragments of identically marked 



