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About 3 feet in from the margin, in the east northeastern part of the mound, 
was seemingly the ceremonial deposit of pottery, though the makers of the mound 
had not imposed on themselves any great sacrifice of earthenware vessels. To- 
Fig. 9.— Vessel of earthenware. Mound near Douglas Bluff. (Height 6 inches.) 
gether were an undecorated vessel, badly broken; some fragments of another 
vessel having a rude decoration; and what had been an imitation of a gourd, with 
line decoration and red paint, in places. Unfortunately this last vessel, which 
originally must have been very attractive in appearance, has lost a part of what 
Fie. 10.—Decoration. (One-half size.) 
represented the stem end of the gourd, and this part presumably was missing 
before the interment of the vessel; in fact its imperfect condition may have sug- 
gested its ceremonial use with the dead. The ware is excellent, the decoration 
carefully done. This vessel, whose imperfect condition was a great disappoint- 
ment to us, is shown in Plate XIII, Fig. 1; its decoration, in diagram, Fig. 11, 
in which the red pigment (except on the stem portion, which is not shown) is 
indicated by diagonal lines. 
