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others of the variety of the “teapot” type having animal heads and spouts, in 
that the head (which is better modeled than those of its class usually are) looks 
inward, We found teapot vessels on only three occasions on St. Francis river— 
two in the Rose Mound and one at the Forrest Place, which is almost at the mouth 
of the river. 
Vessel No. 127. This bowl (Fig. A, Plate XIX) shows a fish in profile and 
belongs to a type of vessel, common in the Middle Mississippi region, the St. Francis 
valley having its full share. The ware is yellow; the exterior has a uniform coat- 
ing of red pigment. The interior has, by way of decoration, a figure resembling a 
swastika with an added arm, which may have been introduced for the purpose of 
filling space. 
Vessel No. 68. This little bowl (Fig. B, Plate XIX) is considerably above the 
average of the pottery of the St. Francis region, being symmetrical in form and 
having an interior coating of excellent red pigment. The body is decorated with 
three encircling lines of small nodes, above which is incised decoration. 
MOUND AT PARKIN, Cross COUNTY. 
On the river bank, immediately at the town of Parkin, is a famous aboriginal 
cemetery belonging to The Northern Ohio Cooperage and Lumber Co., of Parkin, 
Ark. 
About midway on the navigable stream (if we include Little river), the Parkin 
territory has for years constituted a kind of march to be raided by the pot-hunters 
of the upper and of the lower river. The principal diggers from above rested not 
from their labors until Parkin had been visited, while the pot-seekers from below 
thought not of their journey home until Parkin lay behind them. 
After them came the deluge. 
The Lumber Company, which later had acquired the property on which the 
cemetery is, and erected a sawmill nearby, in dull times when the mill was closed, 
permitted its employes to eke out a livelihood by digging for pots, and this became 
the avocation of many. Men were actually seen by us at Parkin walking around 
with sounding-rods in their hands, as elsewhere they might carry canes. 
The Parkin Mound, similar in type to the Rose Mound, has a great upper sur- 
face, as a rule flat, on which are many humps and rises. According to a rough 
measurement the sides of the mound are of the following lengths: north, 617 feet; 
south, 525 feet; east, 938 feet; west, 863 feet. It is surrounded on three sides by 
depressions whence unquestionably material to make the lower part of it was taken. 
Subsequently the height of the mound increased by the accumulations due to long 
occupancy. This made-ground we found to have a depth no greater than 4.5 feet 
in the various holes sunk by us. The height of the mound above the general level 
probably is from 8 to 6 feet, though of course it appears considerably greater when 
viewed from the depressions which partly surround it, or from the river. 
There is a pond in the level ground on the northern side of the mound, no 
doubt caused by the removal of material for its making. 
