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CERTAIN MOUNDS ОЕ ARKANSAS AND OF MISSISSIPPI. 551 
We are unable to say with certainty just what this vessel represents; whether 
it is modeled after a section of a gourd or is a conventionalized shell-form. On 
each of the four! vessels found by us is a protuberance opposite the projecting part, 
which part, in the case of a shell, would represent the beak; or the neck in the 
сазе of a gourd. In conventionalized shell-forms which we have seen, where the 
conch (Zgur) drinking-cup is represented, there is a group of knobs around a 
central protuberance. 
On the other hand, nearly all gourd-vessels have a depression in place of a 
knob, and rightly so since the depression represents the actual one seen on that 
part of the gourd which is opposite the neck. Per contra, as we have pointed out 
in this paper, vessels unmistakably representing gourds sometimes have a knob in 
place of a depression. 
Еіс. 46.— Vessel No. 15. Douglas. (Diameter 5.8 inches.) 
Vessel No. 51, a diminutive “teapot” of dark ware, was found with part of a 
small boat-shaped vessel inverted over the opening in the body. 
Vessel No. 32, a “teapot,” has the spout and knob surrounded by circles of 
white pigment. Оп the two other sides of the vessel are round markings in white 
enclosed in circles of red with small, intervening, circular spaces of the yellow of 
the ware, as shown in Plate X X. 
Vessel No. 21 is also a “teapot” but somewhat larger than the one just 
described. It is decorated in the same manner, with the addition of some black 
pigment that has been present on the basal portion, but which is now bardly more 
than a stain. 
! There were found by us along the Arkansas river four such vessels, differing only in size, with a 
single exception. Тһе knob on one of the vessels is surrounded by four small, incised, concentric 
circies. 
