494 CERTAIN MOUNDS OF ARKANSAS AND OF MISSISSIPPI. 
We shall now describe in detail the more noteworthy vessels from the neigh- 
borhood of the Menard mound. 
Vessel No. 34. This beautiful bottle (Plate XIII) is one of the very few ves- 
sels found by us on the lower Arkansas river showing in two colors a design other 
than the scroll. The ware is light yellow. The body is globular, but projects 
somewhat at the base, which is flattened. Тһе long, graceful neck, flaring toward 
the aperture, is coated with pigment, brick-red in color. Around the body are 
spaces of the yellow ware, defined by white pigment. These spaces, circular on 
top, with extensions tapering downward, have precisely the shape of the copper 
pendants found by us in the great prehistoric site at Moundville, Ala., the circular 
portions of which contain either swastikas or stars. On this vessel similar spaces 
enclose five-pointed stars on the upper row, and figures somewhat resembling an 
arrowhead on the lower tier. АП these stars and projectile points (if that is what 
the latter represent) are colored with brick-red pigment. 
The star does not seem to have been extensively employed on the ware of the 
middle Mississippi region. An example, however, is described as coming from 
southern Missouri.’ 
Vessel No. 170 is a bottle of yellow ware, 4.7 inches in height, with red pig- 
ment exteriorly on the neck. The decoration on the body consists of four irregular 
circles of solid color, red and white alternately. Each of these circles is surrounded 
by a circular space without paint, showing yellow ware, which space is, in turn, 
enclosed in a painted circle, white around the red and red around the white The 
same style of decoration may be seen on the small “ teapot” vessel in Plate XX. 
Vessel Хо. 194, of dark ware (Fig. 4), is of the “teapot” variety which, as 
we have said in our introductory remarks, is found only in eastern Arkansas or in 
nearby regions. 
It seems to us there is a possibility that this type of vessel may be derived 
from the gourd, although vessels that unmistakably represent the gourd usually 
have a small depression opposite the neck, or extended part, though such is not 
invariably the case, as we have seen a few examples in which the knob and not 
the depression is present. In Fig. 5 is shown a gourd-vessel from southern Mis- 
souri? which, were the upper part of the neck cut away and a smaller aperture 
present on the top, could well be a vessel of the “ teapot” class. 
Vessel No. 78 is a toy-vessel of dark ware, of the “teapot” variety (Fig. 6), 
the smallest of this kind found by us along the Arkansas river. The spout and 
part of the opening have been restored. 
Vessel No. 64 also belongs to the “ teapot” variety, and is 7.6 inches in height. 
The vessel has a uniform coating of red pigment, which is well preserved and 
gives the vessel a rich and striking appearance. 
Vessel No. 166 is another of the “teapot” form, coated with red pigment. 
Its height is 3 inches, a size evidently fitting it for a child's use. In this particular 
1 Dr. Edward Evers, “ pr of Missouri," Part I, Pl. IV, Fig. 1. 
2 Evers, op. cit., Pl. XIV, No. 228. 
