534 CERTAIN MOUNDS ОЕ ARKANSAS AND OF MISSISSIPPI. 
Throughout the investigation at Greer 160 vessels of earthenware were found, 
or an average of exactly two to each burial.’ 
Only a few burials were without a mortuary deposit of vessels, ranging from 
one to five in number. These vessels were found, not in a great majority of 
instances near the skull, as was the case in sites farther down the Arkansas river, 
but arranged variously. Sometimes vessels lay near the skull, in one instance the 
head being entirely surrounded with them, or again vessels were found along the 
arm, near the thighs, at the knees, or at the feet. For example, Burial No. 7, a 
skeleton lying partly flexed on the left side, had at the right shoulder a water- 
bottle, another vessel at the elbow, and a bowl at the feet. 
Burial No. 61, a skeleton having the lower extremities extended and the head 
and trunk flexed over and turned to the right, had, under the skull, a bowl con- 
taining a smaller bowl; at the elbow, a bottle; over the left knee, a bowl; at the 
right thigh, a large bowl with a smaller bowl somewhat above it. 
But few vessels at Greer had been placed in the ground, inverted. 
In certain respects the earthenware found at Greer differs from that met with 
by us farther down the river. Тһе use of red paint as a coating for vessels was 
exceptional in this cemetery, while decoration made up of red designs and white 
designs in combination was found but twice, though red pigment appears in a 
number of instances worked into the lines of incised decoration. 
But one vessel of the *teapot" variety was met with at Greer, and this vessel 
was found with a burial at a distance from the two sites whence all the rest of the 
pottery was taken. 
The ware from Greer is largely dark, not highly polished, and, when decorated, 
bears in almost every instance a scroll decoration made up of broad, trailed lines, 
and offering little variety of combination. Тһе majority of the ware is undeco- 
rated and of inferior quality, especially that placed with the bodies of children, a 
rather exceptional circumstance, for the aborigines, as a rule, were liberal when 
interring their little ones. As usual, vessels with children's remains were small 
in keeping with the size of the departed. 
In many of the vessels were large musselshells, too fragmentary for identifi- 
cation, as a rule, though in one case Dr. H. A. Pilsbry has identified one to be 
Lampsilis purpuratus. 
Red pigment was found in several vessels We have already quoted (page 
484) the analysis by Dr. H. F. Keller of red ocher from this place. 
Part of a rude smoking-pipe of earthenware was found in the soil, apart from 
human remains. 
We shall now describe the vessels from Greer, which merit particular notice. 
'In this enumeration all vessels have been scored, whether whole, partly broken or hopelessly 
crushed by the plow (the last two classes greatly predominating), our object being to ascertain as nearly 
as possible the number originally placed with the dead, though, of course, owing to the destruction of 
the human remains and of vessels through cultivation of the field, it was impossible to do this with 
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