ON THE POTTERY OF THE MOUND-BUILDERS. 99 
mode of decoration appears to have been widely prevalent, and 
not confined to this hemisphere. The most beautiful specimen of 
ancient pottery of the Mound-builder epoch, which I have ever 
seen, was a cup recovered from 
shell bank on the borders of Grand 
Lake, Louisiana, by Dr. Dungan, of 
Jeaneret’s, and deposited in the col- 
lection of the Chicago Academy of 
Sciences, but unfortunately destroyed 
in the memorable fire of October 8, 
1871. It was hemispherical in form, 
and glazed with a pigment of a rich 
umber color, except where orna- 
mented, in which the groundwork Ancient bse § from San José, 
was reddish. This is the only in- on ees 
stance of glazed pottery, which, to my knowledge, has been found 
on the Gulf coast. In the accuracy of detail and in the graceful 
Fig. 17. lines of the contour, this vessel reminded me 
strongly of the best specimens of Japanese 
pottery of the present day. The rim was or- 
seen in the preceding specimen, with this ad- 
dition, that below the line defining this work 
there was a scroll-like border of harmonious 
i Pita of the Bronze 
Se, Switzerland. =}. outline. At first I was disposed to regard 
this similarity of marking as a signal fact demonstrating a filia- 
Fig. 18. Fig. 19. 
Drinking cup from an e rave Pipe from a Mound near 
Perry County, Missouri. = 5 ? Laporte, Indiana. 
tion between the ancient inhabitants of the two regions, but I 
