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52 ABORIGINAL SITES IN LOUISIANA AND IN ARKANSAS. 
the potter's art were found. The vessel from the Canebrake mound has addi- 
tionally, however, an incised design on the base, shown in Fig. 21. 
A bottle! from this mound, which has seen much better days and at one time 
may have presented a rather striking appearance, still bears traces, on upright 
bands, of cream, black, and red, alternately. 
Polychrome decoration on pottery is seldom found south of Arkansas river. 
Fic. 22.—Vessel of earthenware. Canebrake mounds. (Height 9.1 inches.) 
Certain other vessels from this mound are shown in Figs. 22, 23, 24. 
Mound C was of black soil above a base-line about 6 inches in thickness, 
in which were mussel-shells and other débris. Below the base-line was an un- 
disturbed mixture of sand and clay. Above the black part of the mound was a 
superficial layer of mixed, yellow clay. Both the upper and lower parts of the 
mound varied somewhat in depth, and it was evident that the lower part had 
! Given by us, with other vessels, to the Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans, La. 
