530 CERTAIN MOUNDS ОҒ ARKANSAS AND OF MISSISSIPPI. 
Vessel No. 50 is a bowl of yellow ware having a solid coating of red on the 
inside. In place of the usual head derived from life is а blunt-pointed handle turn- 
ing inward, having a perforation. On the opposite side is the usual conventional 
tail (Fig. 45). 
Vessel No. 5 is a small vessel with four equidistant protuberances around the 
rim, resembling the well-known loop-handles so often found in southern United 
States. In this case, however, two of these protuberances have been perforated 
after the baking of the clay, for purpose of suspension, while the other two remain 
solid. For decoration, this bowl has an interior coating of red paint, and a band 
of red pigment surrounding the upper, outer part. 
Vessel No. 15 is a bowl of excellent, dark, smooth ware, with incised decora- 
Ета. 45.— Vessel No. 50. Douglas. (Diameter 5.6 inches. ) 
tion, shown in Fig. 46, in which the meander and the discs, which are probably 
sun-symbols, have a conspicuous place. Red pigment has been used in the lines of 
the upper, or flaring, part of the outside of the bowl, while white pigment appears 
exteriorly in the decoration of the body of the vessel. 
Vessel No. 1, a bottle of light yellow ware, 8.2 inches in height, has a globu- 
lar body, which, including the neck, has a beautifully polished, even coating of red 
pigment. 
Many bottles of this class, though with the color less excellently preserved, 
were found by us in the lower Arkansas region, but they will not be described 
particularly unless offering some point of divergence. 
Vessel No. 79 is a bottle only 2.8 inches in height, evenly coated with red 
paint. This toy, as might be supposed, lay with the skeleton of an infant. 
Vessel No. 30. This beautiful vessel (Plate XIX) has an even coating of 
cream-colored pigment on the outside, and of carmine over the entire interior. 
