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All burials but two were accompanied with pottery, and one of these two 
showed signs of disturbance, which may have removed accompanying vessels. 
Kighteen vessels in all, presenting no feature of interest, with one exception, 
were with the burials. A bowl on which had been two loop-handles, one on each 
side below the rim, had lost one handle in aboriginal times. This handle had been 
replaced by a perforation presumably to enable the vessel to be continued in use. 
Evidently the loop-handles, so common on aboriginal pottery in certain regions, 
were not, as some have thought, simply ornamental, but served a practical purpose. 
Red pigment had been employed on but one of the eighteen vessels. 
THE Stott PLACE, PoINSETT COUNTY. 
The Stott Place, belonging to Mr. Frederick M. Stott, who lives on it, also had 
undergone careful search by the diligent worker to whom we have referred in our 
account of the Potter Place. 
There are no especially high places on the Stott property, but the surface of 
the land is slightly rolling, owing its irregularities to aboriginal deposit. 
Considerable digging came upon six burials—four of adults, two of children. 
Where determined, the extended form of burial had been practised. 
Burial No. 1, the skeleton of an adult, which was saved almost entire, and 
with the skull in good condition, presents pathological features of much interest, 
including a reunited fracture. In addition to three vessels, a chisel chipped from 
a flint pebble, 5.25 inches in length, lay with the remains. 
Thirteen vessels were found with the burials, nearly all of them undecorated, 
two or three having trivial ornamentation. 
In one instance two large fragments of pottery had been placed over a skull. 
At the Stott Place, which is on the outskirts of the town of Lepanto, our 
journey up Little river ended, for reasons given in our introductory remarks. 
In the cemeteries of St. Francis river, as in many other parts of the Middle 
Mississippi valley, the fish, as is well known, was a favorite concept in connection 
with pottery and is found as a decoration on the ware in various degrees of conven- 
tion. Asa series of bowls from the St. Francis, showing gradations from the fish 
to a highly conventionalized decoration, may prove of interest, such a series is given 
in Figs. 49 to 56, inclusive. 
Through the courtesy of Prof. F. W. Putnam and Mr. C. C. Willoughby, of 
Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., we have received nineteen photographs repre- 
senting the most interesting vessels in the collection of pottery made on the St. 
Francis, in 1880, for Peabody Museum. 
In Figs. 57 to 63, inclusive, are reproduced (about one-third size) seven of these 
vessels, all but one decorated with red pigment, which least resemble others found 
by us on the St. Francis, though some of the vessels from the Peabody Museum 
collection, which we figure, rather nearly approach in appearance certain ones 
found by us. 
