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Vessel No. 8. This vessel of yellow ware (Fig. 9) bears as decoration an 
incised design of mediocre workmanship, based on scrolls and circles. 
Vessel No. 20. A bowl of excellent brown ware tempered with material other 
than shell, belongs to a class representatives of which were found by us in the Neb- 
lett Landing Mound, Miss., which will be described later in this report. The type 
of vessel referred to consists of an inverted, truncated cone, the sides being in 
various degrees of expansion. In this particular case the bowl, with a circular, flat 
base about 3.5 inches in diameter, has a height of only 5.1 inches, while the diame- 
ter of the vessel itself is 11.1 inches, so that the expansion is marked. 
Vessel No. 12. A bottle 7.2 inches in height, with globular body and short, 
slender neck constricted below the opening, which is flaring. The decoration in 
white and brick-colored pigments has been executed with considerable care and con- 
sists of partly interlocked scrolls of white and of red around the body, and a red 
triangle at the flat base. The neck has a uniform coating of red. This bottle, the 
Ета. 12.—Vessel No. 36. Glass, Miss. (Height of pot 4.7 inches.) 
