48 ABORIGINAL SITES IN LOUISIANA AND IN AR KANSAS. 
The earthenware at this place, tempered as a rule with eoarse sand or fine 
gravel, is without polish, save in two or three instances where an attempt has 
been made to confer it, and is soft, presumably through insufficient firing. The 
forms in nearly every instance embrace the bow] and the pot and vessels between 
the two. The bottle appears but once— small with а wide mouth. А pentagonal 
base separated from the rest of the vessel was present. 
Fra. 18.—Vessel of earthenware. Near Turkey Point Landing. (Diam. 4.3 inches.) 
As might be expected in the lower Mississippi region, the vessels are sym- 
metrical, the ware is fairly thin, and a large proportion of them bear decoration, 
though the artistic aspiration that prompted the adornment of the ware was 
decidedly lacking in the skill or care hecessary to its realization, much of the 
decoration, most of which is incised, being faint and with irregular line-work. 
Parallel lines, and curved lines including the scroll, predominate. No attempt 
at coloring is exhibited. 
Several of the better vessels from this mound are shown in Figs. 16, 17, 18, 
19, not because they present any special feature of interest, but to illustrate the 
earthenware of the place. One pot, fully equal to any of them, is omitted from 
the illustrations as in shape and in decoration (a seroll design on the body and 
parallel lines on the neck) it is almost exactly similar to one found by us at 
Seven Pines Landing, Morehouse Parish, on Bayou Bartholomew, La." This 
vessel from the Turkey Point mound has been sent as a gift to the United States 
National Museum. | 
Presumably a large number of burials remained in the mound when our 
investigation came to an end, as additional digging was not desirable in view of 
the rising river. 
Two small rises of the ground, respectively on properties of Messrs. T. S. 
Knight and N. H. Hill, not far north of the mound on the Scott Place, were dug 
into by us without success. 
! “ Antiquities of the Ouachita V alley,” Fig.172. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. of Phila., Vol. XIV. 
