168 ANTIQUITIES OF THE OUACHITA VALLEY. 
at the right knee of a skeleton and one at the upper part of a left femur. In 
another instance two vessels with a skeleton lay one at the right shoulder and one 
at the right knee. 
The ware, with one exception, is without shell-tempering; and no decoration 
in color is present save in a single instance. 
At this place, except in one case, there was little departure from the common- 
place, in either form or decoration of earthenware vessels. 
Certain of these vessels will now be particularly described. 
Vessel No. 1, the body of a bottle from which the neck has been removed 
through contact with a plow. The ware is coarse and unevenly fired. The base 
is flat. The decoration consists of a five-pointed star, rudely modeled in relief, 
having a diameter of about 6.5 inches. 
Vessel No. 7. А bottle of gray ware, having а flat base and a most unusual 
shape of body—possibly a compound form (Fig. 184). The decoration consists of 
series of curved trailed lines above the spaces in the lower part of the body. 
Fic. 184.— Vessel No.7. Mound Place. (Height 8.4 inches.) 
