410 QOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER. 
Kent Place came from the two extremities of the mound we have described апа 
from a small hump a few feet from it, while vessels and artifacts from various sites 
in the fields were of a very inferior class. 
It is interesting to note in connection with this place that so far as our inves- 
tigations extend it furnishes the northernmost occurrence, on the Mississippi river, 
of the well-known “ teapot,” or spout vessel, though we have found vessels of this 
class still farther north on the St. Francis river, Ark. Four “teapot” vessels, all 
broken and some very fragmentary, came from the Kent Place, one of black ware, 
two coated with red pigment, and one, parts of which unfortunately had been car- 
ried away by a plow, having a handsome decoration in red, white, and black. 
There was almost a complete absence of incised decoration on the earthenware 
of this place. A few vessels were rudely marked with parallel, vertical lines; one 
had parallel lines encircling a space below the margin; one, a bottle, had a most 
inferior attempt to render a scroll design with the aid of a sharp point. 
We shall now turn to vessels from the Kent Place inviting particular description. 
Vessel No.9. The bottle shown in Plate XXXII has a barrel-shaped body 
decorated with encircling bands of red and of white pigment, separated by narrow 
spaces showing the yellow of the ware. The neck is covered with a uniform coat- 
ing of red. The coloring material on this bottle is particularly well preserved and 
bears a considerable polish. | 
Vessel Мо. 17. This vessel, of the well-known “teapot” variety, has a uniform 
coating of red pigment, and differs from most, but not all of the “teapot” class in 
that it has a flat base of circular outline, the bases of the majority of “teapot” 
vessels being rounded. Another minor variation in this vessel is that the knob 
opposite the spout instead of being rounded, as is usual in vessels of this kind, 
shows a slight flattening. Height 7.2 inches. 
Vessel No. 4. This bottle, shown in Plate XXXIII, has for decoration on the 
body six figures, elliptical in outline, alternately red and white. Spaces between 
these figures now show the yellow of the ware to a considerable extent, but have 
been colored black, not with pigment, but with material leaving hardly more than 
a stain, perhaps charcoal, which was used by the Blackfoot Indians in recent times 
for coloring pottery. 
Vessel No. 26. This bottle, 7.3 inches in height, is an example of the crude 
work in color so often met with in the Middle Mississippi region. Тһе body, which 
is oblate-spheroidal, is covered with a design consisting of a cherry-colored cross 
whose four arms extend downward, and a cross of a somewhat degraded white, 
having arms directed upward. The neck of the bottle is coated with three bands, 
red, white, and red. 
Vessel No. 1. This handsome bottle closely resembles one figured by Holmes.' 
The neck has been coated with red pigment.. The body has eight vertical spaces 
alternately red and white, separated by narrow margins showing the yellow-brown 
color of the ware (Plate XXXIV), 
1 William Н, Holmes, “Aboriginal Pottery of Eastern United States," Pl. XLa. 
