. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . FiQ. 49—Bottle decorated with serpent designs, Arkansas. Three-fourths actual size. appreciation of the decorative value of the figures. Jiy dint of rub-bings, photographs, and sketches, a complete drawing of the variousfigures has been obtained, and they are given in figure 50 on a scaleof about one-third actual size. The rosette figures probably representthe sun. There can be little doubt that the figures of this design arederived from the mythologic art of the 50—Winged serpents an
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . FiQ. 49—Bottle decorated with serpent designs, Arkansas. Three-fourths actual size. appreciation of the decorative value of the figures. Jiy dint of rub-bings, photographs, and sketches, a complete drawing of the variousfigures has been obtained, and they are given in figure 50 on a scaleof about one-third actual size. The rosette figures probably representthe sun. There can be little doubt that the figures of this design arederived from the mythologic art of the 50—Winged serpents and sun symbols from the vase illustrated in figure 49. The ancient potter of the central districts did not venture, save invery raie cases, to delineate the human figure graphicallj, and suchattempts as have come to hand do not do much credit to the artisticcapacity of the people. A .specimen is shown in figure .51, the fourfigures in simple lines occupying the peripherj of the body of a largeplain bottle of the usual dark-coloied ware of eastern Arkansas. 92 ABORIGINAL POTTKRY OF EASTERN UNITED STATES [ In plate xiv we have selections from the very large group of high-necked bottles. The piece shown in a is a good illustration of a typeof form common to Missouri and Arkansas. The neck is high andcylindric and the body resembles a slightly flattened globe. Setabout the shoulder are four medallion-like faces, the features of whichare modeled roughly in low relief. The ware is of the ordinary dark,slightly polished variety. There are few vases from the mo
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