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decoration, such as knobs, incised lines around the necks, notched or scalloped 
margins, or fillets in relief near the openings. Nine had trivial decoration in addi- 
tion to ears, loop-handles, and the like. Five pots and bowls had decoration of 
a commonplace character on the bodies, such as rudely incised parallel lines or 
coarse punctate markings; and sixteen vessels of the types in question were some- 
what removed from the commonplace by decoration with red pigment or by having, 
or having had (for many of the bowls of this class were interred after their decora- 
tive devices had been broken off and lost) the projecting modeled heads of quadru- 
peds or of birds, or the heads and tails of fish, often greatly conventionalized. 
The five vessels of forms other than bottles, pots, and bowls, will be described 
and illustrated in the detailed account of the more noteworthy vessels from the 
Rose Mound, the numbering of the vessels included in this analysis being 175 to 
828, inclusive. 
Red pigment had been used on twenty-one of the one hundred and forty-nine 
vessels in question: thirteen times as a uniform coating; five times in bands, with 
the ware for a background; twice in conjunction with brown pigment; and once 
in combination with white pigment. 
We shall now return to the pottery in general found at the Rose Mound. 
Vessels of earthenware lay with most of the burials—one infant, as we have said, 
having had no fewer than eleven. 
The arrangement of the vessels was, in the main, as they were found else- 
where on the river—some containing other vessels, some with inverted vessels over 
them. 
Pottery, as a rule, was found in the neighborhood of the skulls, but such was 
not always the case. 
We shall now describe in detail the most interesting vessels from Rose Mound. 
Vessel No. 271 (shown in two positions in Plate XI) is a bowl of yellow ware, 
having projecting from one side the modeled head of a quadruped, which is a rather 
striking piece of work and considerably superior to most attempts of the kind 
known in this region. Opposite the head is a flat space which presumably takes 
the place of the tail. The legs of the animal are indicated by rather rude, incised 
markings. On the whole, this piece is an unusual one. 
Vessel No. 252. This little bottle (Fig. 17), of a known but uncommon type, 
lay with the bones of a child. The crescentic body recalls the head of a war-club 
of a type known to our Indians, and it is not unlikely that this was copied in 
pottery just as the Peruvians embodied their form of war-club in the shape of some 
of their vessels. 
Vessel No. 177. This vessel (Fig. 18), а cup, may have been used as a recep- 
tacle for paint, as red pigment remains on one side of the interior. It is just as 
likely, however, that the presence of this coloring matter arose from accidental 
contact. 
Vessel No. 350, a bottle of dark ware (Fig. 19), having on the body an incised 
design based on the swastika. Around the neck also is incised decoration (shown 
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