458 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER. 
but twelve vessels decorated in color were found by us at Pecan Point, and these, 
with the exception of the head bottle to be described later, show little variety in 
design. 
Many mussel-shells, separately or occasionally in pairs, lay within or beside 
vessels at this place. 
We shall now consider earthenware from Pecan Point, having features of 
interest. 
Vessel No. 31, a bottle, has four equidistant depressions in the body, but is 
otherwise undecorated. This form of decoration in regions where potters were 
given to the use of incised designs would have, in addition, much incised decoration 
in which the depressions would occupy central positions. 
Vessel No. 330, a bottle of ordinary form as to the body, but showing 
markings whence a head, a tail, and four legs apparently had been broken 
away. Animal forms and pots with the additions we have named occasionally 
are found in the Middle Mississippi region, but a bottle with a globular body, 
with head, tail, and legs is rare indeed. A fine bottle bordering on this class, 
though the body is not entirely globular, is in the collection of Mr. E. E. Baird of 
Poplar Bluff, Mo." 
Vessel No. 333, a pot of ordinary ware, having around the portion below the 
rim a decoration of upright fillets in relief. On the body are vertical, parallel, incised 
lines, very rudely executed. On the base of the vessel is a circle containing a 
swastika. 
Vessel No. 463, a bowl almost 4.5 inches in diameter of body, having on one 
side, projecting outward and upward, the modeled head of a bird. On the opposite 
side is a tail extending horizontally, having six deeply incised, parallel lines on the 
upper surface. In this tail are two holes for suspension ; a single hole traverses the 
neck of the bird on the opposite side. 
Vessel No. 475, a pot about 6 inches in diameter, has on opposite sides a con- 
ventional head and tail of a fish; on two other opposite sides, dorsal and ventral 
fins are represented. On one side of the vessel are two holes for suspension, while 
on the opposite side are the same number of semi-perforations which, for some 
reason, have not been: completed. : 
Vessel No. 229. This bottle, shown in Plate XXXV, received a blow from a 
spade on one side, the restored part showing somewhat to the left in the illustration. 
The body is decorated with vertical bands, white and red, the red bands being of 
different widths alternately. The neck has had a uniform coating of red pigment, 
much of which has disappeared through wear. ( 
Vessel No. 160. A bottle of coarse, shell-tempered ware, of a well-known type 
in the Middle Mississippi region, has a double neck arching to form a short, vertical 
one at the union of the two. 
Vessel Мо. 178. А bottle of hard, black ware, 7.2 inches in height, having in 
relief on the upper part of the body, surrounding the neck, the symbol shown in 
t W. K. Moorehead. “ The Stone Age in North America,” Vol. II, p. 281. 
