AND BLACK RIVERS, ARKANSAS. 301 
with sufficient distinctness for positive identification. There is rude, incised deco- 
ration on the upper part of the body. 
Vessel No. 85, a bottle 6.2 inches in height, with a graceful body, oblate sphe- 
roidal, which, by way of decoration below the neck, bears in relief a symbol the 
meaning of which is in doubt. А similar bottle is figured by Holmes'as coming 
from Arkansas. : 
Vessel No. 407, a bowl of very ordinary ware, having two rudely modeled 
animal heads facing each other on 
opposite sides (Fig. 30). 
Vessel No. 404, a bowl with a 
modeled animal head projecting up- 
ward on one side, in which are small 
objects that rattle when shaken, has, 
on the side opposite the head, a tail 
curling upward. Maximum diame- 
ter 9.7 inches. 
Vessel No. 562. This bowl 
(Plate XVII), somewhat similar to 
one from this same mound in the col- 
lection of Peabody Museum, Cam- Fie. 30.—Vessel No. 407. Rose Mound. (Diam. 8.5 inches.) 
bridge, Mass., has interiorly an inter- 
esting decoration in red pigment on the background of the ware, consisting of a 
central swastika indicating the four winds, surrounded by three equidistant stepped 
The exterior of the bowl under description is coated 
designs, or cloud symbols. 
with red pigment. The outer margin of the opening is beaded. 
Vessel No. 586, a handsome bottle, oblate-spheroidal as to the body, found in 
many fragments which since have been carefully cemented together. Тһе decora- 
tion of the body consists of ten upright bands of pigment alternately red and white. 
The base, which is flat, and the neck have solid coatings of red. There are punctate 
markings around the margin of the neck. 
Vessel No. 185. This vessel, one of the “teapot” variety (Plate XVIII, 
which is found in the United States only in eastern Arkansas and nearby regions 
(its center of discovery being the eastern part of the Arkansas river valley), differs 
from the usual form of this kind of vessel in that, instead of having a knob at one 
side and a spout at the other, the head of an animal takes the place of the knob, 
and the addition of four feet completes the animal form. It has been suggested by 
Professor Holmes, who figures? a vessel of this class, that the teapot vessel 18 
derived from the animal form, a spout taking the place of a tail. The decoration 
on the vessel under deseription consists оҒ partly interlocked scrolls of light pink 
and of red, on the yellow background of the ware. 
Vessel No. 115. This interesting vessel (Fig. 31) is a decided variant from 
* Ор. cit., Plate XIII f. 
* Op. cit., Plate XL b. 
