308 ANTIQUITIES OF THE ST. FRANCIS, WHITE, 
Shell beads of ordinary form, in addition to those already noted, lay with two 
other burials. 
Apart from burials were: four pipes of earthenware, all coarsely made and 
none presenting any distinctive feature; a piercing implement of bone with the 
articular part remaining; a small dumb-bell shaped object of earthenware, probably 
ап ear-plug; two spheres of clay, each about an inch in diameter, resembling our 
“marbles” and probably used in a game, like those found in the stone-graves of 
Tennessee ;! one small, imperforate disk of earthenware, modeled from clay and 
not shaped from a fragment of a vessel; a similar disk, only larger, and having a 
central hole; a perforated disk wrought from a fragment of pottery ; a cone of half- 
fired clay, found in a fire-place; two small earthenware columns similar to those 
from the mound on the Rose Place but more thoroughly fired. 
Ninety-two vessels came from the Jones and Borum places, all but three or 
four associated with burials and as a rule lying near the skulls. In three instances 
skulls rested directly in large bowls; and in one case on, and partly in, a bowl that 
was too small to receive the entire head. 
In the cemetery at this place, which, like other places of burial along the St. 
Francis, contained so much pottery of mediocre interest, it was a genuine relief to 
come upon Burial No. 14, that of a child, having at the neck a few spool-shaped 
beads of shell ; at the shoulder a fine effigy vessel which will be particularly described 
later in this account, and a small bowl coated with red paint inside and out and 
having two holes on each side for suspension. Near these vessels, upright, were 
two small bottles, one inverted in the opening of the other. 
The vessels of this place, many of which were not in a condition to preserve, 
did not, as a rule, present features of interest. But four had decoration with pig- 
ment, in each instance consisting of a uniform coating of red. Descriptions of the 
more interesting vessels from the Jones and Borum places, follow. 
Vessel No. 22. "This fine human effigy figure, of yellow ware (Plate XX), 
presumably has had a coating of red pigment over the entire surface, though much 
of this coating is now missing. "The ears show the same form of piercing as do the 
well-known head vessels which we have already described. Effigy vessels are occa- 
sionally found on St. Francis river, but are not numerous there, though more abund- 
ant than in the lower Mississippi region. Vessels modeled after the human form 
seem to be most abundantly found in southern Missouri and in Tennessee. In 
describing the effigy figure from the Bonner Place reference has been made to the 
variety of effigy vessels figured in General Thruston’s ^ Antiquities of Tennessee.” 
A number from Missouri are shown in “ Archeology of Missouri,” by Dr. Edward 
Evers. 
Vessel No. 64. A bottle of inferior, yellow ware (Fig. 34), having a body 
formed of three compartments connected interiorly. 
' Gates P. Thruston. “ Antiquities of Tennessee,” 2d ed., p. 164. 
