Plate 19. 
There is no direct information on the place from which 
this beautifully decorated vessel (Catalog No. 8X50) 
came. James B. Griffin has called vessels with decorations 
such as those on this pot, Rhodes /ncised. ‘‘Whorls and 
festoons cover the body and occasionally the rim. This 
design, as observed on whole pots, characteristically 
spirals from a nuclear swastika or triskele repeated four 
times on the vessel.”’ (Phillips, Ford and Griffin, 1951, p. 
127, and Figure 98). He notes that this decoration occurs 
on globular jars, some of which have a short straight 
collar, as does this one, which he says is a common 
feature on such jars found with burials. He further notes 
that this kind of decoration is found on vessels from late 
prehistoric Mississippian sites along the Mississippi River 
floodplain principally in the area of Memphis, but also 
extending down to about the mouth of the Arkansas 
River. Comparable types are not found to the north or 
east. Relationships appear to be rather with certain types 
of the Caddo area to the west and possibly to certain 
others in southern Louisiana. 
