SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER. 467 
Vessel No. 497. А bottle (Fig. 76) having by way of decoration, modeled in 
relief at the base of the neck, a cross of the four directions, each arm of which is 
the well-known step-design, or cloud-symbol. As this design, being of the same 
shade as its background, the body of the bottle, did not lend itself to successful 
photographic reproduction, the half-tone illustration is made from a wash-drawing 
of the vessel. 
Ета. 76.—Vessel No. 497. Pecan Point, Ark, (Height 5.9 inches.) 
Vessel No. 91. А bottle 4.7 inches in height, of light-brown ware, with short, 
wide neck, having in red pigment on the body four volute designs based on the 
swastika. On the neck are step-patterns, or cloud-symbols, in the same color. 
Vessel No. 254. A bottle 7.75 inches in height, to which a wide and slightly 
flaring neck contributes 3.5 inches. On the body is a design somewhat similar to 
the one on the vessel just described—a well-known decoration on earthenware from 
this part of the Mississippi river and from the St. Francis river, Ark., to the west- 
ward. Тһе design on this bottle, however, differs from the other in that, instead 
of having a back-ground of the ware, all space between the red pigment markings 
is filled in with white, or, perhaps more properly speaking, a cream tint. On the 
neck has been a decoration in red pigment, now almost obliterated. There is a 
discoidal, projecting base. 
