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in other mounds and lience was more deepl\- impressed and lacked the confusion of 

 design which arises from a double impression on parts of the decorated surface. 



4. — This class was made up of vessels coated with crimson pigment, as a rule 

 effigy-vessels, often of birds, and was of the ceremonial, or "freak," variety with basal 

 holes made before the baking of the clay and with perforations of various shapes 

 made at the same time through the body of the vessel. This ware, whose destina- 

 tion was understood at the time of manufacture, and consequently was but halt 

 baked and most inferior, was recovered by us in masses of fragments only, some past 

 restoration. 



Fig. 288. — Vessel No. 27. Mound near llunnd Field. (Two-tliirds size.) 



5. — Two effigy-vessels, of better ware tlian that of which the ceremonial 

 vessels were made, did not belong to that class, as holes knocked through the bases 

 after baking and absence of perforations in the bodies, clearly testified. The abori- 

 gines had devoted more care to ware destined for their own use than to that turned 

 out for the service of others in the " happy hunting grounds." Human nature is ever 

 the same. 



The following vessels merit particular description. 



