POTTERY OF EASTERN TENNESSEE 



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illustnites a prevailing form of culinaiy vessel, and exhibits the pecu- 

 liar finish of the body produced liv malleating with textile-covered 

 modeling tools. A unique form 

 of handle is shown in figure 67. 

 This piece is not unusual in an}' 

 other respect. 



A small vessel of very vmu- 

 sual shape for eastern America 

 is shown in figure OS. It ex- 

 hibits the usual crude manipu- 

 lation of the region, and is tem- 

 pered with coarse shell. It is 

 in every respect characteristic 

 of the district, save in the pro- 

 longation of one side of the body 

 into a rounded point, giving 

 what may be likened to a shoe 

 shape, but which also, as .seen 

 in profile, suggests the form of 

 a bird. The two handles are 

 placed as ufsual; one is normal, but the other extends out on tlie pro- 

 jecting lobe and is continued in three spreading notched fillets which 

 connect with a notched band carried around the shoulder of the A'essel. 



Vessel with arched handle, from a mound 

 in Sevier county. Tennessee. 



Fig. 6S — Shoe-shaped vessel, with incised designs. Loudon county. Tennessee. 



The neciv and sliould(>r are embellished with a pattern of incised lines 

 rranged in alternating triangular groups. A similar vessel from 

 n adjoining county is .sjiown in figure 69. Especial iittention is 



