12 ANTIQUITIES OF THE OUACHITA VALLEY. 
vessels which, in our belief, in respect to incised decoration, exceed in beauty any 
discovered elsewhere in the United States. | 
We note the occasional occurrence throughout the Ouachita valley of what is 
seldom found on aboriginal pottery in other regions, namely, the extensive use of 
incised decoration and of color on the same vessel. 
We are aware that on pottery from regions to the northward, as well as from 
the province we are describing and from elsewhere, incised designs were sometimes 
reinforced by the insertion of color in the lines, but the body of the vessel, in such 
instances, is not colored with pigment; hence we do not include this class with the 
one described in advance of it. 
It will be noted also by the student of pottery of the Ouachita valley that the 
use of pigment on large numbers of vessels did not obtain there, the use of any color 
on vessels having been exceptional; and in this respect the pottery of the lower 
Mississippi province seems to differ from that of the middle Mississippi valley, where 
colored pottery is so commonly and abundantly found. 
Pottery with black coloring material was not found by us in the Ouachita 
valley; though such coloring is present occasionally on vessels in the middle Missis- 
біррі province, where, however, it has little body, being hardly more than a stain. 
The use of white pigment (kaolin), except to intensify the lines of incised 
decoration, seems to have been infrequent in the lower Mississippi region, though 
it was abundantly used to the northward. But one vessel was found by us in all 
this season’s work on which white pigment was used to confer a design, namely, a 
small water-bottle bearing on the body partly interlocked scrolls, alternately of red 
and of white pigment. This vessel, like the two of the “ teapot” variety found by 
us, exactly resembles vessels found in abundance farther north, and all perhaps 
аге importations.  — 
Red pigment, when occurring on pottery of the Ouachita valley, seems to be 
more durable and more brilliant than that used on pottery found farther north. A 
mass of red pigment from the cemetery at the Keno Place has been examined by 
Dr. H. F. Keller, who says of it: “ It is remarkably brilliant, and contains, besides 
oxide of iron, considerable quantities of clay and quartz fragments." 
A bottle in fragments, found by us at Sycamore Landing, was coated with 
green pigment. This pigment, analyzed by Doctor Keller, proves to “be a mixture 
of green silicate of iron (glauconite) and white kaolin.” Masses of glauconite were 
found by us with burials at the great prehistoric site at Moundville, Ala. 
In relation to the collection of pottery made by our expedition this season, it 
may be well to explajn that a large proportion of the earthenware vessels obtained 
were in fragments—one in 108 pieces—and that all such vessels are carefully 
cemented together. Sometimes slight restoration is deemed advisable, This retora- 
tion, however, is attempted only when the parts of the vessel in our possession 
make it clearly apparent what the remaining part must have been. 
"Тһе Keno Place and the p 
tholomew, as will be described, later 
See “Certain Aboriginal Remai ; . ; 
Phila., Vol. XIII. s. raat Пу mains of the Black Warrior River. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci., 
lantation at Sycamore Landing are near together on Bayou Bar- 
