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of which we are uncertain. The ware is thin and covered with crimson pigment. 

 In addition to the hole in the base, made before baking, there are many other orifices, 

 varying in size and shape, made at the same time as the basal perforation, inaugurating 



a type not found by us to the westward, 

 and but infrequently met with until much 

 farther east along the coast. At either 

 end of the body, which has an elliptical 

 transverse section, probably modelled 

 after the body of a bird, is a bird's head 

 projecting horizontallj' outward. Below, 

 on one side, a hole has been made with 

 the outline of a wing, which design is 

 not repeated on the opposite side (Fig. 

 23). Length, 9.5 inches; width, 5.5 

 inches ; height, 9 inches. 



Vessel No. 33.— A bowl, oblate 

 spheroid in shape, much flattened, of 

 about 3 quarts capacity, with incised 

 decoration, half of Avhich is shown dia- 

 grammatically in Fig. 24, the other 

 half being similar. This vessel, found 

 crushed to bits, has been cemented to- 

 gether and somewhat restored. 



Vessel No. 34. — This vessel, found 

 crushed to fragments, parts of which 

 were not recovered, has had a flat base, 

 most of which is now missing through 

 the mortuary mutilation common to the 

 vessels of this mound. The lower part, 

 a truncated cone reversed, supports the 

 body which is made up of three project- 

 ing bosses surmounted by incised lines. 

 The neck slopes inward slightly (Fig. 

 25). Height, 8 inches; maximum dia- 

 meter, 6.5 inches. 



Vessel No. 35. — A quadrilateral 

 vessel of about 1 pint capacity, tapering 

 to the base, part of which has been knocked out. Two sides are undecorated. Of 

 the other two sides, which have incised decoration, one is shown in the representa- 

 tion of the vessel (Fig. 20) ; the other, diagrammatically in Fig. 27. 



Vessel No. 39. — A jar of about 1 quart capacity with semiglobular body and 

 neck first slightly constricted, then flarino-. The decoration, which is between two 



Fig. 22. — No. 18. linage of earthenware. Larger mound near 

 Burnt Mill Ci'cck. (Three-fourths size.) 



