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have .several other very tine examples of this ware, three of whieh are 

 shown in plate clxix <i, lu r and d. W\ have a number of plain ))ands 

 and figures, which alternate with roulette-indented spaces. The thick- 

 ened rim in h and in c and <1 is covered with reticulated incised or rou- 

 letted lines, and the body is lobed, as it is in several specimens owned 

 by the Kent Scientific Institute, tirand Rapids, Michigan. 



Similar in general style to the preceding is the handsome little ves- 

 sel obtanied from a mound at All)any, Whitesides county, Illinois, 

 illustrated in plate CLXX^y. The shape and ornamentation are some- 

 what novel. Four flatfish lobes occur about the body, on each of 

 which a figure, somewhat resembling a Maltese cross, has been made 

 ])y incising or impressing broad shallow lines. The remainder of the 

 body is covered with marks that resemble inipressions of a coarse 

 osier basket, but which luay have been made with a blunt stylus. 



Another fine specimen is shown in plate clxxS. This is one of a 

 pair of handsome pieces recently obtained by the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology from a mound in A'ernon county. Wisconsin. It is 6^ 

 inches in height, and in symmetry and finish it rivals the l)est work of 

 the South. The paste is dark, compact, and fine grained, and is tem- 

 pered with fine sand. The color of the surface is a rich, mottled l)rown. 

 The lip is smooth and the margin rounded. The outside of the nar- 

 row collar is ornamented with oblique incised lines, and is crossed at 

 intervals by lines made with a notched wheel. The neck is slightlj' 

 constricted, and is encircled by a polished zone \^ inches wide having 

 a line of indentations along the upper edge. The body is separated 

 into fourloltes by four vertical, depi-essed, jjolished l)ands about 1 inch 

 wide. Two of these lol)es are crossed obliquely 1>.V similai' polished 

 bands. These bands were all finished with a polishing implement and 

 are slightly depi'essed, thus giving rise to the somewhat lo))ed shape. 

 They ai'c bordered by wide, incised lines. The intervening spaces or 

 lol)es are indented with a roulette, luoved back and forth in irregular 

 zigzag arrangement. 



Specimens of this ware are found in Illinois as far south as Union 

 county. On the west side of the ^Mississippi I know of no examples 

 from localities farther south than Scott county, Iowa. Some of these 

 were illustrated in the first volum(> of the Proceedings of Davenport 

 Academy of Science. Th* vessel shown in plate clxxic? was found in 

 a mound near Davenport, closely associated with human remains and 

 other relics, among which were several copper implements covered 

 M'ith coarse woven fabrics. Its height is 11 inches, the width of the 

 aperture is 7^ inches, and the diameter of the base is 4 inches. There 

 is a broad, shallow constriction at the neck. The walls are from one- 

 fourth to three-eighth's :'f an inch thick, and the margin of the rim is 

 s(juared ofi', showing the full thickness — a common feature in the 

 northern potter\'. The form is nearly symmetric and the surface is 

 well smoothed, T)ut is not polished. At present the paste is dark and 



