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Vessel No. 48 from the ground south of Mound D, is a bowl (Figs. 43, 44) the 
base and sides of which are completely covered with figures possibly representing 
bows and arrows. If the rosette-like figures are sun-symbols (and the sun is thus 
represented sometimes, we believe), the design may have been intended to repre- 
sent the arrows or shafts of the sun. This, of course, is conjecture. 
Vessels No. 88 from the ground south of Mound D, and No. 15a from the field 
near Mound M, are bottles (Figs. 45, 46, respectively), each having a design four 
times shown, consisting of a skeleton hand (probably) and a skeleton forearm. In 
Ес. 42.—Vessel No. 28. Field west of Mound R. (Height 4.8 inches.) 
our former Moundville report we described and figured (pp. 175 and 226) two ves- 
sels bearing engraved representations of skulls and skeleton forearms, and called 
attention to the resemblance between these and certain figures in Mexican codices. 
We were unable at that time, however, to cite a case in the codices where the 
ramus of the lower jaw is shown extending so markedly behind the occipital part 
of the skull as it is made to do in the Moundville designs. We are now able to 
a certain extent to supply the deficiency from the Sahagun manuscript.’ 
1“ Altmerikanischer Schmuck und soziale und militarische Rangabzeichen,” Fig. 63. Prof. Dr. 
Eduard Seler. Gesammelte Abhandlungen. 
