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Excavations in the Matthews Site, New Madrid County, Mo. 91 
showed a majority of cord-marked designs with a minority of 
incised, trailed, and punctate designs. 
Middle Mississippi Plain is the most common shell tempered 
ware in the site. This type is found in jars, bottles, effigy, bot- 
tles, effigy flange bowls, bowls, cups, and figurines (Plate XIV 
Nos. 1, 2, 4, 7, 12). Human effigy and conch shell effigies were 
also found. The ware is of medium thickness (5-10 mm.). The 
smaller jars have 2 to 4 loop or strap handles and several have 
lugs with vertical perforations. The ware has a rather coarse 
texture and the hardness varies from 2.5 to 3. 
Some of the jar sherds with outward flanging rims have 
incised rectilinear and curvilinear designs running around the 
shoulder area (Plate XV). This ware is more porous and 
softer than the Middle Mississippi Plain ware and has been 
named Matthews Incised. 
Many sherds from plates, effigy flange bowls, scalloped 
bowls, plain bowls, and bottles have a dark gray polish on the 
surface and have a hardness of around 3 (Plate XIV 5, 6, 8, 
9, 11, 14). This Bell Plain ware sometimes has trailed designs 
bowl flanges (PI 
10, 11, 15), 
A few sherds are relatively thin and are red filmed. They 
appear 
1 bowls in the Matthews settlement, 
A few polychromed red and white sherds were found at 
d mound NMol2. Many complete bottles of this St. Francis 
and White ware were excavated by the 1878 Academy Ex- 
ped 
A number of thick, poorly fired sherds of coarse texture 
were unearthed in the village. Their only form was that of a 
deep, straight-sided bowl with a hole in the bottom, popularly 
called "juice presses" (Plate XIV No. 3). Some of these were 
incised with curvilinear trailed designs near the base (upper 
XV) 
poorly 
Kimmswick 
Ware 
While Middle M 
clay tempered ware was abundant. The latter ware had a hard- 
pped 
impressions. 
Marked 
largely utilitarian, as it was not found with burials ^nd was 
tempered ware. Both 
tempered and clay tempered 
