SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER. 471 
In speaking of head vases and “ teapot” vessels, be it remembered, we have 
reference only to territory included in the United States. 
In Professor Holmes’ “Ancient Pottery of the 
“Aboriginal Pottery of Eastern United States,” 2 
exhaustively treated and fully illustrated. 
sidered in “ Prehistoric Art. 
Mississippi Valley” * and in his 
the subject of head vases is 
rm . ` . 
The question of head vases also is con- 
We shall now end this digression and return to the head bottle from Pecan 
Point. 
FiG. 78.—Vessel Хо. 97. Ресап Point, Ark. 
(Height 5.5 inches.) 
The ware is light brown, containing a certain amount of shell-tempering. 
The base of the bottle projects downward and seems to have been modeled to repre- 
sent the human neck, while the body of the bottle has been given the shape of the 
head. The face, including the ears, is modeled on it in relief. The face, ears, and 
neck have a coating of red pigment, but the remainder of the vessel is without the 
addition of coloring. Each ear shows two perforations, a number smaller than head 
vessels usually have, though the ears of human effigy vessels from the Middle 
Mississippi region are, as a rule, shown as having but one perforation, which is 
' Fourth An. Rep. Bur. Ethn., p. 406 et seq 
1. 
* Twentieth An. Rep. Bur. Am. Ethn., p. 96 et seg. Pls. XXIX, XXX, XXXI, XXXII, 
XLIII 
° Thomas Wilson. Rep. U. S. National Museum, 1896, p. 475 et seq. 
