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high, having around it a decoration consisting of a uniform coating of red paint, has 
a painted design on the body, based on the swastika, with spiral arms. The spirals 
in this case, however, show less curve than usual, and have a somewhat squared 
appearance. 
Vessel No. 13. In Plate XXXVI is shown a head bottle, a variant from the 
well-known and interesting type of head vases which we believe (speaking of the 
United States) are found only in northeastern Arkansas and in southeastern 
Missouri. At the time when Professor Holmes wrote his “Ancient Pottery of the 
Mississippi Valley,’ he had met with but eight head vases, all of which had been 
found in this Pecan Point site. In later years other head vases have been discov- 
ered, but in comparatively small numbers; so the vessels are as rare as they are 
interesting. 
We have been enabled to trace the present ownership of the following speci- 
mens of the head vessel type : 
Eight in the National Museum, Washington, D. C., and in the Davenport 
Academy of Science, Davenport, Iowa; all from Pecan Point, Ark. 
One in the collection of the Cossitt Library, Memphis, Tenn., said to have been 
found at the Bradley Place, which is not far from Pecan Point. 
One in the collection of Mr. 1. McGirk Mitchell of St. Louis, Mo., and another 
belonging to Mr. H. M. Braun of East St. Louis, Ш.; both from a site near Blythe- 
ville, northeastern Arkansas, not far from the Missouri line. 
One “from Mississippi County, Ark.,” the property of Mr. E. E. Baird, of 
Poplar Bluff, Mo. 
One in Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., from the Fortune Mound, St. 
Francis river, Ark. : 
One in the Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, from the mound at Par- 
kin, St. Francis river, Ark. 
Two in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Pa., from the Rose 
Mound, St. Francis river, Ark. 
Several in the collection of the Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Mo., 
described as coming from southeastern Missouri. 
A handsome bottle with faces and ears modeled in relief on two opposite sides 
in the collection of Mr. George J. Mepham of St. Louis, Mo., who informs us that 
1t came from a mound in Mississippi County, Mo. 
The head bottle under description, from Pecan Point, Ark., now in the 
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Pa. 
There is also a class of vessels found near Little Rock, Ark. (and possibly else- 
where), which can hardly be called head vases or head bottles but which nearly 
approach such vessels. The vessels in question bear faces modeled in low relief, 
and little effort has been made to have these vases conform to the shape of the 
human head. In fact, the face does not always seem to have been intended to rep- 
resent the human features. The faces, moreover, sometimes occupy but a small 
1 William H. Holmes. Fourth An. Rep. Bur. Ethn., 1882-83, p. 406 et seq. 
