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sitting cross-legged, a position very rarely seen in aboriginal figures found in the 
United States, the legs on effigy bottles almost invariably being represented flexed 
back parallel under the figure. On a shell gorget from Tennessee," however, a 
cross-legged figure is shown. 
Vessel No. 32. А bowl (Fig. 31) having a modeled human head on which is a 
head-dress presumably made from a stuffed bird or from a bird-skin. In this con- 
nection we are indebted to Mr. Charles C. Willoughby for the reference, Plate II 
of Thomas Hariot's “ Virginia,” Holbein edition, where is shown an Indian with a 
Ета. 31.—Vessel No. 32, Rhodes Place, Ark. (About full size.) 
bird with extended wings at one side of the head. The reader probably will recall 
also that in Le Moyne’s “Narrative,” Plate XIV, is portrayed a chief wearing part 
of a bird on the head. 
Vessel No. 18. This interesting life-form represents a bird with a crest ех- 
tending backward from the head and joining the body of the vessel. Both wings 
also are shown, and the tail, below which is modeled the vent in relief (Fig. 32). 
Vessel No. 28 is a bowl (Fig. 33) belonging to the well-known class having a 
grotesque head of some fanciful animal on one side, and a curling tail on the oppo- 
site side. This particular vessel, which is superior to many of its class, has on the 
back of the head a swastika incised within a circle. 
1 Thomas Wilson. “The Swastika,” Plate X, Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1894. 
