AND BLACK RIVERS, ARKANSAS. 329 
upright neck and head, modeled after those of some animal, have been. The ware 
of the vessel is very coarse, and the outside is covered with soot, showing it to have 
been in use for culinary purposes. Two small ears project horizontally from орро- 
site sides of each of the three openings. Maximum diameter. 13 inches; height, 
7.8 inches. The outlines of a type of vessel somewhat similar to this one are f ° 
by Professor Holmes.’ 
Vessel No. 39. This bottle (Plate XXIV), with double neck uniting in a sin- 
gle one above, belonging to a type not uncommon in the Middle Mississippi region, 
bears on the body a decoration consisting of six spaces coated with red and white 
pigment alternately, on a background of brown pigment. Тһе neck, apparently, 
has been covered with red paint, now largely worn away. The appearance of Ше 
vessel, as shown on the plate, suggesting a lobed body for the bottle, is shared by 
the original vessel, but is not based upon fact, the lobed appearance being caused 
by the heavy bands of brown between the spaces of red and of white. A part of 
the neck is missing through breakage in early times. The restoration, shown in 
broken lines on the plate, is based on comparison with other bottles of the same 
type from the same region, though this double-neck type from Peru and elsewhere 
often has a longer upper portion to the neck. The asymmetrical shape of this ves- 
sel, which has been faithfully reproduced in the illustration, is typical of a great 
number of vessels along the St. Francis. 
igured 
THE MILLER PLACE, POINSETT County, 
The Miller Place, a short distance below the town of Marked Tree, but on the 
opposite, or western, side of the river, is the property of the Messrs. Bennett Broth- 
ers (T. J., J. F., and W. W. Bennett), who reside on the plantation and at Marked 
Tree. 
In the Twelfth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, for 1890-91, is a 
description of this place and a plan from which one who has lately visited the place 
can see how much cultivation has changed it in later years. 
Though much digging was done at the Miller Place in earlier times, for the 
last ten years, at least, indiscriminate work on the place has been prohibited, though 
there has been surreptitious search, and, according to all accounts, a great amount 
of pottery has been uncovered in the course of cultivation. In fact, at the time of 
our visit there, two skeletons, one with two earthen vessels, were ploughed up 
within a few feet of where we were at work. 
Immediately at the landing at the Miller Place are extensive high places of 
artificial origin, on which are a dwelling, a large barn, and various smaller buildings, 
with fenced ground pertaining to them. АП this ground, of course, was closed to us. 
Leading back through cultivated fields toward woods which surround the place 
are two parallel ridges of rich, black soil, both of which have long been under culti- 
vation. It was in these ridges that practically all our quest was conducted. 
1 Op. cit., Plate УП, a. 
2 Page 207 et seq. 
42 JOURN. А. N. S. PHILA,, VOL. XIV. 
