SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER. 459 
Fig. 65, the meaning of which, as we have said, is in doubt, though its use in 
aboriginal times was comparatively widespread. 
We find it engraved on pottery and repoussé on 
sheet-copper from the great site at Moundville,’ 
Ala., and carved on stone from the region border- 
ing the lower Arkansas river; It is seen in 
relief on pottery from Arkansas? and we have 
found the symbol in that State, forming the out- 
line of bowls, along the St. Francis and Mississippi 
rivers. - 
Incidentally it may be said that the symbol 
in question, when it does not appear in relief on a 
bottle or as an outline of a bowl (in which case no 
partieular position can be assigned to it), is almost 
invariably represented with the pointed parts ver- 
tically placed and also has centrally an elliptical 
figure perhaps representing an orifice. In Fig. 66 
is shown one of these symbols which is engraved 
on a vase from Moundville, Ala. 
Vessel No. 144. We show here in Fig. 67 а 
bowl shaped in outline to resemble the symbol to 
which reference has just been made. 
Vessel No. 459. "This bottle, 3.9 inches in 
1 а ab MUR NES кек height, has lost much of its neck іп aboriginal 
times, though the margin of fracture has been : 
smoothed down by the aborigines to allow continued use of the vessel. The deco- 
ration has consisted of a considerable number of vertical bands alternately red and 
black, though on some of the bands little trace of the black remains. 
Vessel No. 136. This interesting pot (Fig. 68), a life form representing a 
quadruped of some kind, is of hard, black ware showing considerable polish. The 
type is unusual, and resembles somewhat that of a vessel found by us on the lower 
Arkansas river, which, however, is inferior in some respects to the one under 
description. The decoration on this vessel consists of designs based on the swas- 
tika and of swastikas enclosed in circles. 
Vessel No. 317. In Fig. 69 is shown a very interesting bottle. On two орро- 
site sides, іп relief, аге modeled human faces, while оп two other oppostte sides, 
Ете. 65.—Symbol of unknown meaning. 
t Clarence B. Moore. “Certain Aboriginal Mounds of D aman Warrior River” and “Mound- 
il isited,” passi . Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., Vol. XIII. ilders.” 
ville Revisited, келн 1 "em ust No а or Scalloped Stone Tablets of the Mound Builders. 
Amer. Anthropologist, Тап.-Маг., 1906. i 
W. K Moo head. “The Stone Age in North America, Vol. L. p. 452. XII We 
s William H. Holmes. “Aboriginal Pottery s arg n Sem Plate . 
found this symbol in relief on no fewer than eight bottles at Pecan Point, Ark. ; : 
А “Certain Mounds of Arkansas and of Mississippi,” Fig. 7. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sei., Phila., 
Vol. XIII. 
