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Vessel No.51. This pot (Fig. 37), another cooking-vessel, much resembles the 
one just described. The loop-handles, however, are replaced by a more conven- 
tionalized form, merely uprights in relief. i 
Vessel No. 3. This pot (Fig. 38), also presumably used for culinary purposes, 
although made of coarse, shell-tempered ware, and possessing a surface unfitted for 
such work, has a handsome, incised decoration far excelling most of the embellish- 
ment of this class found in the Middle Mississippi region. The design, based 
on the swastika, appears four times. In spaces between the upper parts are 
upright lines in relief, surmounted by what are probably intended to represent 
human heads. 
Ета. 39.—Vessel Мо. 72. Rhodes Place, Ark. (Height of bowl 2.8 inches.) 
Vessel No. 73. A bowl having a modeled human head upright on one side 
and a conventional tail extending horizontally on the opposite side. On the tail 
appear two incised ovals, probably a symbol (Fig. 39). 
Vessel No. 47. This vase, in reality more gracefully shaped than Fig. 40 
would lead one to believe, bears on the body an incised decoration based on the 
swastika and perhaps in part derived from the crested serpent. 
Vessel No. 81, a bowl, is decorated interiorly with a poorly executed, incised 
design, the meaning of which is problematical, though possibly a bird may be rep- 
resented, as what may be intended for head, tail, body, and wings appear on the 
design shown in diagram in Fig. 41. 
54 JOURN. A. N. S. PHILA., VOL. XIV. 
