154 ANTIQUITIES OF THE OUACHITA VALLEY. 
Burial No. 30—at the left shoulder, a bowl inverted over a pot in which was 
the carapace of a tortoise. 
Burial No. 31—at the right wrist, a musselshell hoe; at the right upper-arm, 
a large fragment from an earthenware vessel, covering about two-thirds of the thorax. 
Under this fragment was a highly polished chert pebble and a small amount of 
charred material. At the right of the skull was an inverted bowl. 
Thirty-one vessels of earthenware were found in the cemetery at the Ward 
Place, the number accidentally coinciding with that of the burials. 
The pottery from this place is, with one or two exceptions, shell-tempered. 
The form usually approximates that of the pot; some vessels with globular or semi- 
globular bodies, having upright or flaring rims, were encountered. Curiously enough 
the bottle was not found in this cemetery, if we except a globular vessel which 
seemingly had been the body of a bottle, but which, having lost the neck, had the 
margin of the fracture carefully smoothed. 
No pigment was found on any vessel, and decoration, when attempted, almost 
invariably consisted of some combination of the scroll, rudely incised. 
A few vessels from this place will be described in detail. 
Ета. 161.—Vessel No. 13. Ward Place. (Diam. 6.3 inches.) 
Vessel No. 13. This vessel, of hard, yellow ware and of rather interesting 
shape (Fig. 161), is not completely made plain in the illustration as the upper part 
of the body extends downward somewhat after the manner of a mushroom. The 
decoration, incised, consists of a meander surrounding disks above and below, alter- 
nately. Faint cross-hatch work has been attempted on part of this decoration. 
Vessel No. 8. A bowl of fairly hard, brown ware, with flat base (Fig. 162), 
having as decoration below the rim, on the outside, six symbols, perhaps represent- 
ing the eye, one of which, owing to lack of space, is but partly shown. The 
remainder of the exterior is occupied by a combination of scrolls, the upper ones 
being filled in with punctate markings, as shown diagrammatically in Fig. 163. 
