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crumbling- and shows a rouo-h fracture. A large percentage of sand 

 was used in tempering. The color is a dark graj'-browu, and the entire 

 surface, with the exception of a narrow band about the base, has been 

 covered with ornamentation. Two or three distinct implements have 

 been used in the work. A part of the neck ornament was made by 

 rolling back and forth a circular tool, the edge of which was notched. 

 A row of indented nodes has been produced upon the exterior surface 

 of the neck by impressing upon the inside the end of a reed or hollow 

 bone about one-fourth of an inch in diameter. Patterns of bold lines, 

 rather carelessly drawn, cover the body, and seem to ha\-e been made 

 by trailing under prett}' strong pressure the smooth point of a stjdus — 

 probably the bone or reed implement already suggested. Some of 

 the large indentations on the lower part of the neck may have been 

 made by the same implement, held in an oblique position and used as 

 a scoop. This vessel and several others of the same group and section 

 are flat-bottomed. I regard this as very good evidence that the work 

 is recent, and it may yet be shown that this ware and the much-dis- 

 cussed engraved stone tablets of the same section are properly attrib- 

 uted to the tribes occupying the banks of the Mississippi long after 

 the steamboat began its career on the Father of Waters. A similar 

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

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

 body, comes from a mound in Buffalo township. Scott county, Iowa. 

 A vase from Ross count}-, Ohio, copied from Squier and Davis's 

 Ancient Monuments, figure 2, plate xlvi, is presented in plate 

 CLxix_/. The ornament in this case is apparentlj' treated in much the 

 same manner as in the Laporte specimens, and the figure of a bird, 

 quite conventionally drawn, is paralleled in a similar vase, plate 

 CLxiXtf, obtained in Michigan, the exact locality not being known. 

 The parallel holds good with respect not only to the bird and its treat- 

 ment, but also to other features of ornamentation, and the vessels 

 closel}" correspond in shape. A third specimen decorated with bird 

 figures was obtained by Dr H. F. Snyder from a mound in Illinois. 

 The vase and design are presented in figure 7.5. In the museum of 

 the Historical Societ\' of Missouri at St Louis is still another vessel 

 of this type, and another handsome vase of the same general class, 

 copied from Squier and Davis, page 189, appears in plate clxxi^. 



It is a significant fact, in this connection, that the few jjieces of 

 potterj' found by Mr Moorehead in the Hopewell mounds, near 

 Chillicothe, Ohio, are of this general type. Illustrations are given 

 in plate CLXXii. The large fragment a shows the usual incising and 

 rouletting, and the shape is equally characteristic, resembling most 

 closeh% perhaps, that of the Iowa specimens already described. The 

 restored shape appears in /'. and the outline of a small piece with 

 rouletted rim, cord-paddled body, and conic base is shown in c 

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