572 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON RED RIVER. 
unevenly done, principally based on the current scroll and circles. Red pigment, 
with which all the line-work has been filled, still remains in fairly good condition. 
Vessel No. 6. This bowl bears an incised decoration chiefly consisting of 
circles and spaces with reticulate lines. In all the line-work are traces of red 
coloring material (Fig. 64). 
Ета. 63.—Vessel Хо. 13. Battle Place, Ark. (Diam. 6 inches.) 
Vessel Мо. 12. In Fig. 65 is shown a bowl with the rudely-modeled head of · 
a bird, projecting from one side. Vessels of this class are about as near to the life- 
form as was attained by the aboriginal potters inhabiting that part of Red river 
running through Arkansas. On 
the conventional tail is a curi- 
ous figure we are unable to 
explain. 
Vessel No. 9. A bottle 
3.1 inches in height, with 
swelling neck indicating a com- 
pound form. The decoration, 
incised, is made up of partly 
interlocked scrolls. The base 
is flat. 
Vessel No. 11. А bottle 
3.6 inches in height, of black 
ware showing considerable pol- 
ish. The decoration consists of current scrolls and circles, the ground being 
filled in with reticulate lines. The incised work on this bottle is still filled in with 
a brilliant red pigment having an unusual degree of intensity. Unfortunately, 
the neck of this bottle had been carried away by previous disturbance of the 
mound, but as the bottle, in ornamentation, shape and size greatly resembles Vessel 
No. 9 (whose description just precedes this one), the neck has been restored in 
imitation of that on Vessel No. 9. 
Ето: 64.—Vessel No. 6. Battle Place, Ark. (Diam. 5 inches.) 
