AND BLACK RIVERS, ARKANSAS. 295 
resenting a fish, is of beautiful, thin, hard ware, bearing a high polish, and in mod- 
eling and in surface is a marked exception to most of the vessels found in the St 
Francis valley. 
Vessel No. 229. A bowl of hard, yellow ware, 7 inches in diameter, is of inter- 
est in that it shows a conventionalized form of decoration based on the animal 
concept. Пас i 
In diagram (Fig. 24) the inner circle shows the rim of the bowl, outside 
of which, on two sides, is a pair of eyes. The fore-legs and hind-legs, joined, also 
appear in relief. 
Vessel No. 469. A bottle of dark ware (Fig. : 
25 
) having a shoulder or a 
24.— Vessel No. 229. Decoration. 
Fra. Rose Mound. (About one-third size.) 
collar-like addition below the neck, on which are projections which in a region 
whose inhabitants had been more given to careful work, presumably would hav 
been loop-handles 
Vessel No. 280. In Plate XIV is shown one of the well-known class of head 
vessels which are fully described and figured by Holmes in his * Aboriginal Pottery 
of Eastern United States." 
These vessels are “ found in considerable numbers in graves in eastern Arkansas 
and contiguous sections of other States," and to our knowledge four belonging to 
this elass have come from the St. Francis valley: one from the mound at Parkin, 
! William H. Holmes. 20th An. Rep. Bur. Am. Ethn., p. 96 et seq., Plates XXIX, XXX, 
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