398 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER. 
Vessel No. 96. This bowl, а life-form representing а shell, is similar to ves- 
sels found to the northward in the Middle Mississippi region, where, however, they 
are usually without decoration. But this vessel, being from a region where incised 
decoration was in vogue, has on the outside a design based on the swastika, and on 
the front, upper part, within (though it does not show in the illustration), an incised 
band filled in with crossed, diagonal lines (Fig. 21). 
FIG. 21.—Vessel No. 96. Neblett Landing, Miss. (Height 3.3 inches.) 
Vessel No. 19. This vessel, also representing a shell, resembles in form the 
bowl just described and on the inside is similarly decorated. On the outside, in 
front, incised scrolls extend around circles, while behind are two bands with crossed, 
diagonal lines, similar to the single band in front. Height 4.2 inches. 
Vessel No. 55. A bottle of inferior ware, having projecting from one side a 
tail, and from the other side the head of a bird or of a quadruped, from which the 
bill or nose is missing through breakage prior to interment. On two sides of the 
bottle are rude, incised designs, possibly representing wings (Fig. 22). 
Vessel No. 52. This bottle, of light brown ware, bears on the body an incised 
decoration composed of the circle and the scroll (Fig. 23). 
Vessel No. 69. There is shown in F ig. 24 an inverted bowl of light brown 
ware, which is undecorated on the inside, but bears on the exterior a well executed 
trailed design based on the scroll. 
In sight of the mound just described is another, considerably larger, the surface 
of which apparently has not been under cultivation. It is said that this mound 
has been used largely for burial purposes in comparatively recent times, and 
