CERTAIN MOUNDS OF ARKANSAS AND OF MISSISSIPPI. 497 
So many vessels of this tvpe and style of decoration were found by us along the 
Arkansas river that we shall not describe particularly any other than this one. 
Vessel No. 38. This graceful vessel, shown in Fig. 8, is of black ware. and 
has an evenly made decoration of trailed, broad lines, which is precisely similar to 
one shown by Professor Holmes! and described as coming from the lower Missis- 
sippi region. 
Vessel No. 65 is a bottle of dark ware, ellipsoidal iı | shape, bearing on one 
side, partly ineised and partly in relief, the head perhaps of a quadruped or possi- 
bly of a fish. On the opposite side appears an upraised tail. Тһе eyes are dis- 
tinctly aboriginal in execution (Fig. 9). | 
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Fic. 8.—Vessel Хо. 38. Near Menard Mound. (Diameter 7.3 inches.) 
An almost exact counterpart of this vessel, which also came from near the 
Menard mound, is twice figured by Professor Holmes. 
Vessel No. 133 is a bottle of yellow ware, well coated with red pigment, and 
represents a deep-bodied fish similar to the sunfish. The head and tail project 
from the body of the vessel as do ventral and dorsal fins (Plate XV). In the plate 
the neck of the vessel, which is 1.6 inches in length, of necessity appears some- 
what foreshortened. The aperture is slightly exaggerated in size owing to its prox- 
‘Aboriginal Pottery of the Eastern United States,” Twentieth Ann. Rep. Bur. Am. Ethnol., 
Lid and I IIb. 
*Third Ann. Rep. Bur. Am. Ethnol., р. 482. Twentieth Ann. Rep. Bur. Am. Ethnol., РІ. 
XXIIId. 
63 JOURN. А. М. S. PHILA., VOL. XIII. 
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