ON THE POTTERY OF THE MOUND-BUILDERS. oF 
County, Missouri, about seven miles from the battle ground of 
Belmont. There was also found a plain water-jug, of about the 
capacity of that described as Figure 12. Statuettes of a similar 
character, but less artistically executed, are in my possession from 
the ancient cemetery in Perry County, before referred to. In all 
instances they were found near the head of the corpse, and appear 
to‘have been offerings consecrated to the dead. 
The Wabash Valley, throughout its entire course, appears to 
have been a highly favored region to the Mound-builder. About 
Fig. 13. 
Statuette from near Belmont, Missouri. = 
twenty miles above the mouth of this stream, on the Indiana 
shore, there is a high bluff, the site of an ancient cemetery, in 
which great quantities of human relics from time to time have 
been unearthed by the excavating power of the river. Among 
these may be enumerated bones, ash-heaps, stone-axes and arrow- 
heads, and pipes and vessels of pottery. Ata point still further 
South, was recovered a water-jug which in its general outlines is 
Similar to that from Missouri (Fig. 12). Figure 14 is a repre- 
sentation of this utensil, the height < which is 6 inches. 
AMER. NATURALIST, VOL. V 
