Fic. 78.— Vessel No. 2. Ground south of Mound D. (Diameter 6,75 inches.) 
In the same pit as the frog effigy-vessel were a 
skull and certain disturbed bones. Near the skull 
were Vessel No. 4 (Fig. 80), a small, wide-mouthed 
water-bottle having the popular decoration consisting 
of incised scrolls surrounding depressions in the body 
of the vessel, and fragments of another vessel that 
had been broken by an aboriginal disturbance. 
Still in the same pit were the skull and upper 
part of a skeleton, the remainder having been cut 
away to make room for another burial. Near the 
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ы РК =) з ‘Wail soe vum skull was Vessel No. 5, a pot of coarse, red ware, 
the shell-tempering showing all over it, with two 
loop-handles, and having below the margin a circle of projecting knobs. With this 
pot was Vessel No. 6, а wide-mouthed water-bottle with globular body and rounded 
base, an exception to the style that prevailed at Moundville, where the bases were 
usually flat. Оп part of the body of the vessel is a faintly outlined pattern where 
decoration has been started and abandoned (Fig. 81). 
An extended skeleton lying on its back had over the face a portion of a large 
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