404 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER. 
and badly crushed. Two interesting vessels belonging to a better class of this 
painted ware have been repaired, and later will be described in detail. 
Among the vessels found at this place were two bowls with slight, rude, trailed 
decoration; one small bowl having a series of rough, single, festooned lines, incised 
exteriorly around the margin, in ick were rude imprints of a pointed implement ; 
a vessel having six small lobes; a vessel with small, pointed knobs near the rim. 
Among the vessels decorated with red pigment was one with a conventional 
tail of an animal, but which had lost the head through breakage in early times, 
and another with the modeled head of a predatory bird, but having suffered partial 
loss of the caudal appendage. 
Vessel Мо. 20. There is shown in Plate XXX, and in another position in Fig. 
25, the most interesting vessel of the “teapot” variety which has yet come to our 
notice. This vessel, which possibly represents a tortoise or a turtle (though the 
head is far from resembling that seen оп any of the order Слегота), shows the 
animal lying on its back with legs extended upward, the toes of the hind feet 
directed backward in a manner forcibly indicating the habit of the tortoise and 
turtle family. Тһе only other vessel of the “teapot” variety portraying a life-form 
placed upon the back, that has come to our knowledge, is one found by us in the 
Rose Mound on the St. Francis river, Ark., but in this case legs and са аге по! 
represented. 
Тһе decoration on this “ teapot" vessel from the site at Avenue consists of an 
excellent coating of red pigment covering the lower part of the body. Red pigment 
also is on the eyes and on the upper and lower part of the head and the under por- 
tion of the tail or spout. Two circles, one at the base of the tail and one near it, 
on the belly, probably representing the female sexual organ and the vent, likewise 
are shown in red. The remainder of the vessel, except the base, where the yellow 
ware is without decoration, has had a coating of cream-colored pigment. 
Incidentally, we may repeat here what we have detailed in former reports to a 
considerable extent. The “teapot” vessel, so far as the United States is concerned, 
is found only in eastern Arkansas and nearby regions, its centre of distribution | 
being the territory along the lower Arkansas river, though it has been found north- 
ward as far as the Rose Mound! near Parkin, оп the St. Francis river, Ark., and 
southward near the junction of Bayou Bartholomew? with the Ouachita river, in 
northern Louisiana, where, however, probably it was carried in trade. 
The “teapot” vessel has been found in Coahoma county, Miss., but not far 
removed from the river, and Professor Holmes figures a vessel belonging to the 
same class as coming from “ Mississippi." * 
! Clarenee B. Moore. *Antiquities of the St. Francis, White and Black Rivers, "mo 
Pl. XVIII and Fig. 31. 
P Clarence B. Moore. “Antiquities of the Ouachita Valley," p. 75. Journ. Acad.: Nat. Sci., 
Phila., Vol. XIV. 
'з Charles Peabody. “Exploration of Mounds, Coahoma County, Mississippi.” Peabody 
Museum Papers, Vol. III, No. 2, Pl. XIV. 
illiam H. Holmes. “Aboriginal Pottery of Eastern epi States," p. 94, РІ. XLb. 
Twentieth An. Rep. Bur. Am. Ethn. 
