474 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER. 
the usual style of incised decoration which prevailed in the Middle Mississippi 
region. A series of conventional handles surrounds the neck. 
Vessel No. 328. This handsome bowl, without decoration on the inside, has 
exteriorly a striking in- | 
cised design exception- 
ally well-executed con- 
sidering the region 
whence it came. The 
design consists of a cross 
surrounded by current 
scrolls. Below the mar- 
gin of the bowl is a 
series of conventional 
handles (Fig. 83). 
It is interesting to 
note, in connection with 
the site at Pecan Point, 
the almost total absence 
of decoration on objects 
other than vessels of 
earth sh паре SH which Ета. 82.—Vessel No. 123. Pecan Point, Ark. (Height 4.1 inches.) 
were found at the place. 
Numbers of piercing implements of bone were unearthed there by us, but only one 
of these bears decoration of any importance. But the objects from Pecan Point 
on which lack of embellishment is most noticeable are the shell gorgets. These 
objects, unlike the bone implements, served no utilitarian purpose, their function 
being purely ornamental, and when, on objects of this kind no decoration is present, 
as is the case with those from Pecan Point, the omission is striking, especially as 
gorgets of shell from Tennessee and even from sites on the St. Francis river, Ark., 
not far westward from Pecan Point, often bear interesting designs. 
Another fact worthy of remark is that throughout all our work at Pecan Point, 
but one pipe was encountered. 
THE SrorrLE РАСЕ, MISSISSIPPI COUNTY, ARK, 
About five miles NNE. from the landing whence a road leads to the town of 
Wilson, is a mound about 8 feet in height, two hundred yards from the river, 
approximately. This mound, 100 feet and 75 feet in basal diameters, has been 
used as a cemetery in recent times. It is оп the plantation of Mr. T. M. Stoffle, 
who resides on the place. | 
In the cultivated field surrounding the mound is ground somewhat higher than 
the rest of the adjacent land, and from this area it was said, a mixed-blood Indian, 
a dealer in aboriginal pottery, had taken many relics. Traces of his work were 
found throughout it by us. 
