388 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER. 
pigment of which is in excellent condition, is especially interesting in that it comes 
from a site in the Lower Mississippi valley, in which region polychrome decoration 
on earthenware is exceptional. 
Vessel No. 6. A bowl of yellow ware (Fig. 10) having an incised decoration 
of crescentic figures. 
Vessel No. 18. А bottle of yellow ware (Fig. 11), from which, unfortunately, 
the upper part of the neck has been ploughed away. Around the body is a band 
in relief. The incised decoration, which is rather faint, is based on the swastika, 
with curious, trefoil figures in addition. 
Various slight rises of the ground in different parts of this plantation, on which 
were a few scattered signs of aboriginal occupancy, were investigated by us but 
without success. Probably places of burial at these sites had been destroyed in the 
course of long cultivation of the soil. 
There were presented to us here fragments of a vessel which we were told had 
washed from a bank. This vessel (Fig. 12) is of very coarse, shell-tempered ware, 
and entirely unlike that found by us in the mound. On each of two opposite sides 
of the vessel is modeled in relief a long-bodied quadruped somewhat similar to the 
lizard-like figures present on a vessel found at Madisonville, Ohio, and figured by 
Professor Holmes." 
On the modeled figures on our vessel, however, ears are represented, which 
feature presumably takes these figures out of the reptilian class. An opening for 
suspension is present between the body of each animal and the side of the vessel. 
Brum Морхрѕ, WASHINGTON County, Miss. 
This noble group of mounds at Winterville, near Greenville, Miss., explored 
and surveyed by us during a previous visit, is fully described in our “Certain 
Mounds of Arkansas and of Mississippi.” 2 
SITE АТ SHADYSIDE LANDING, WASHINGTON County, Miss. 
Near Shadyside Landing are three mounds which would be in full view from 
the river but for the presence of trees. Near these mounds are various small ridges 
and flat elevations which evidently, in the past, were aboriginal dwelling-sites, 
though much of their superficial parts apparently had disappeared through work, 
wear, and wash. 
We are indebted for permission to examine this site to Mr. J. H. Leavenworth 
of Greenville, Miss., its owner. 
The mound nearest the landing, of irregularly circular outline, with basal 
diameter of 166 feet, has a height of about 13 feet.  Trial-holes sunk into its 
summit-plateau yielded no return. 
In full view from this mound is another, somewhat larger but much spread, 
and evidently considerably reduced in height through wash of rain and trampling 
1 Twentieth An. Rep. Bur. Am. Ethn., Pl. CLXIIIa. 
* Part ІП. “The Blum Mounds.” Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., Vol. XIII. 
