ANTIQUITIES OF THE OUACHITA VALLEY. 119 
Ета. 116.—Pipe of earthenware. Sycamore Landing. (Full size.) 
Seventy-eight vessels of earthenware, lying singly, in twos, and threes, and in 
one case four together, came from this cemetery. In this last instance there were 
two bowls upright, one within the other, and two others on their sides, one within 
the other. 
Many of the vessels of this place were apart from human remains when found, 
though unquestionably, in our opinion, they had been deposited with burials. 
The pottery from this cemetery, as a rule, is inferior, is without shell-temper- 
ing, thick and unevenly fired. Many vessels were hardly more than pasty frag- 
ments when found, though, as there was little originality of form or decoration, the 
loss is not greatly to be regretted. This marked inferiority of ware is of especial 
interest in connection with this place, inasmuch as Sycamore Landing is in the 
immediate vicinity of Glendora Plantation and the Keno Place, where beautiful 
examples of pottery were found, and one might expect to meet with at least some 
similar specimens at Sycamore Landing. 
A marked flattening of the base of vessels, a specialty of the region, was notice- 
able in this cemetery also. 
Vessel No. 48, represented by parts only, is a bottle of coarse, yellow ware 
covered exteriorly with green pigment, the analysis of which is given in our intro- 
ductory remarks on the pottery of this region. 
Vessel No. 36, an undecorated bottle, has at one time rested on three supports 
which were missing when the vessel was found. There was no opening between 
the body of the bottle and the supports, as there sometimes is in vessels of this 
kind. 
