MYER] GORDON TOWN SITE 539 
“Antiquities of Tennessee’’ shows, in Plate 6, a vessel with a conven- 
tionalized animal feature decoration and incised border on rim. 
There is some reason to believe that it probably came from the 
Gordon site. Thruston left no record. 
In the probably kindred cultural region of Arkansas vessels have 
been found which show related conventionalized animal designs. 
Some of these are shown in the Twentieth Annual Report of the 
Bureau of American Ethnology, Plate 23. 
There are a few vessels with somewhat similar conventionalized 
decorations in the United States National Museum. These came 
from Tennessee, and probably represent raccoons. 
Several large fragments of each of the domestic vessels shown in 
Plate 117, 6, and Figures 
151, 152, 153, and the 
entire vessel, in frag- 
ments, shown in Plate 
118, 6, were found in the 
stratum of pottery coy- 
ering grave E, in circle 
No. 79. Plate 117, 6,is 
a restoration of a bowl 
of black and gray mot- 
tled pottery, 6 inches 
in diameter. It is ornamented with four knoblike protuberances. 
Figure 151 is a restoration of a pot, of light Indian red material, 10 
inches in diameter across the top and 10 inches in depth. 
Plate 118, a, shows a beautiful, slightly oval, beaded-rim bowl, 
914 by 101% inches in diameter. Both its exterior and interior are 
' dark cream color, somewhat darker than Plate 106,c. This vessel 
was made of clay mixed with finely powdered mussel shell, and both 
the interior and exterior then coated with a dark cream-colored clay 
slip. The vessel was later highly polished by rubbing with some 
polishing instrument. The bowl is well burned and hard. 
Figure 152 represents a handled pot of dark cream-colored ware, 
somewhat darker than Plate 106,c. It was 10 inches in diameter 
across the top. 
In this layer of pottery fragments were also found portions of a 
vessel similar in shape and character to Figure 152. It was 12 inches 
across the top, made of firm hard-burned bluish-gray ware, and was 
a very serviceable vessel. 
Figure 153 shows a restoration of an unhandled pot of hard-burned 
ware. Its exterior and interior were a light red, resembling Plate 
106, f. It was 8 inches across the top. 
A small pottery vessel with incised decorations, shown in Plate 
115, 6, was found on the original clay subsoil surface of the floor of 
Fic. 152.—Restored handled pot from top of grave E 
