CERTAIN MOUNDS OF ARKANSAS AND OF MISSISSIPPI. 515 
the bowls—and a large number of the vessels found were bowls—had been placed 
in the ground inverted. This fact may denote that at this place at least, the bowls, 
when placed with the burials, did not contain offerings of food. 
In some cases, one vessel had been placed within another, as, for instance, a 
pot resting inverted within another pot. Another vessel was found turned over a 
smaller one which was itself inverted. 
The more noteworthy vessels will now be described in detail. 
Vessel No. 19 is an interesting example of the life-form and “teapot” vessel 
combined. From one side projects the head of a frog, while on the opposite side 
is the spout (a restoration) of the “teapot.” In connection with these are the legs 
of a frog modeled in relief (Plate XVI). Тһе upper part of the vessel is coated 
with red pigment, while the lower part has been covered with white coloring-mate- 
rial, now largely worn away. 
Professor Holmes, as we have noted in our introductory remarks, describes! 
and figures? ап animal form “ (еароб” from 
* Mississippi. Тһе fine specimen referred 
to by him differs from ours, however, in that 
the head is apparently not that of a frog, 
while the legs, instead of being modeled in 
relief on the vessel, extend vertically 
downward and serve as supports. 
Vessel No. 1. This vessel, а bottle, 
was found in many fragments that have 
since been cemented together with slight 
restoration of the body and almost complete 
restoration of the neck (Fig. 29). The ware, 
which is yellow, appears in but two or three 
spots where the painted designs, which are 
pink and white, are not in contact through Кта. 30.—Vessel No. 1. Part of the decoration. 
. xs (One-fifth size.) 
oversight on the part of the aboriginal 
artist. Both varieties of pigment on this vessel have adhered exceptionally well, 
no flaking being apparent. 
The design differs from that? on most of the bottles decorated in two colors, 
met with by us along the lower Arkansas river, and consists of a current scroll in 
deep pink surrounding the body of the vessel, with an encircling band of white above 
and below, from uh four equidistant arms extend doen: and upward, respec- 
tively, forming, in connection with each other, partly interlocked scrolls; at the 
same time the upper and the lower circles and arms form swastikas of а pattern 
shown in Fig. 50. 
The neck of the bottle has been pink, matching the current scroll decoration, 
! Fourth Ann. Rep. Bur. Am. Ethnol., p. 403. 
з Twentieth Ann. Rep. Bur. Am. Ethnol., Pl. XLb. 
* I. e., partly interlinked ls shown in Pl. XIV. 
