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Vessel No. 14 from the ground south of Mound D (Figs. 68, 69), bears another 
highly conventionalized serpent-design of partly interlinked scrolls and serpents’ 
crests. 
Vessel No. 96 from the ground south of Mound D, a bottle (Figs. 70, 71), 
bears another conventionalized serpent-decoration in which we see a lessening of 
the number of crests and a consequent tendency toward the partly-interlocked 
scroll pure and simple. 
FIG. 68.— Vessel No. 14. Ground south of Mound D. (Diameter 4.8 inches.) 
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Етс. 69.— Vessel No. 14. Decoration showing highly conventionalized serpent-design. (About one-third size.) 
Vessel No. 3 from the field west of Mound R, a very graceful water-bottle 
(Fig. 72), bears the partly-interlocked scroll without the serpents’ crests, the 
ultimate stage in the evolution from the serpent-design. 
Vessel No. 6 from the field near Mound M, a water-bottle, bears a decoration 
shown in Fig. 73, where again we see the partly-interlocked scroll free from the 
serpent-crest decoration. 
