130 ANTIQUITIES OF THE OUACHITA VALLEY. 
The same arrangement with the addition of an upright vessel alongside. 
An upright vessel with another turned over it, both covered with a large frag- 
ment of another vessel. 
Two upright vessels each with another vessel inverted over it. 
Three upright vessels, one of them surmounted by another vessel inverted. 
An upright vessel protected by two others, each inverted at an angle to bring 
the upper edges in contact. 
One vessel having another inverted over it. With these a vessel on its side 
with another so tilted that the aperture of the vessel on its side was closed by the 
base of the other vessel. 
A vessel standing vertically, having its opening closed by the base of an upright 
vessel; alongside of these a vessel standing vertically. 
The same arrangement except that the last named upright vessel had another 
turned over it. 
Two or three upright vessels, one within the other. 
Two upright vessels, one within the other, with an upright vessel alongside. 
Two upright vessels, one within the other, both covered with an inverted vessel. 
Two upright vessels, one containing a small inverted vessel, and covered with 
a large fragment of another vessel. 
Three upright vessels together, one containing another upright vessel, and 
covered with a fragment of pottery. 
A vessel on its side, containing another one. 
In sixteen instances fragments of musselshells lay within vessels, singly except 
on two occasions when two shells were present together. Once a musselshell rested 
on the rim of a vessel. These shells were too badly broken for identification, except 
in two cases, when each proved to be Lampsilis purpuratus. 
On several occasions the carapace of the tortoise lay within vessels, one shell 
being so small that presumably it had served as a spoon, like a musselshell, and 
not in place of an earthenware vessel, as was usually the case in the Ouachita 
valley region. 
Nearly all vessels of earthenware from the cemetery on the Keno Place were 
of moderate size. In some groups, found with bones of children, all the vessels 
were diminutive. 
Though, as we have said, the conditions for the recovery of the pottery at the 
Keno Place were unfavorable, a number of vessels of ware superior to the average 
were recovered in fragments, and these fragments were subsequently carefully 
cemented together, and restoration made when necessary and unquestionable. 
These vessels, together with a few found whole and many large fragments of pot- 
tery, show that the proportion of earthenware bearing decoration was greater than 
that in many cemeteries of the Ouachita region, though in most cases the decora- 
tion was very simple and crudely executed. One could wish also that the abori- 
ginal artists had to a less extent confined their endeavor to the scroll and to 
combinations of the scroll. 
