. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . g or cord. In the interior, and princi-pally on the Mississippi Eiver, the pottery vessels were made to rep-resent sometimes the human form, sometimes animals. There was amuch greater prevalence of the bottle-form in the United States thanin Europe. Prof. W. H. Holmes, of the Bureau of Ethnology, has written an in-teresting monograph upon aboriginal pottery in the United States, andthe late Col. James Stevenson described the Zuni and Pueblo these papers have been published in the Reports of the Bureau ofEthno
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . g or cord. In the interior, and princi-pally on the Mississippi Eiver, the pottery vessels were made to rep-resent sometimes the human form, sometimes animals. There was amuch greater prevalence of the bottle-form in the United States thanin Europe. Prof. W. H. Holmes, of the Bureau of Ethnology, has written an in-teresting monograph upon aboriginal pottery in the United States, andthe late Col. James Stevenson described the Zuni and Pueblo these papers have been published in the Reports of the Bureau ofEthnology, and are profusely and elegantly illustrated. The following are given as specimens of what may be found in mounds: No. 280 is from a mound in Tennessee; 281 from a mound in Illi-nois; 282 from a mound in Union County, Kentucky; 283 a moundin Tennessee; 284 a mound in Arkansas; 285 a mound in North Car-olina ; 286, which is a bright red and the only one painted, is from amound in Tennessee; 287 is from a mound in Louisiana. A STUDY OF PKEHISTOKIC ANTHROPOLOGY. 671. EiG. 43.—Pottery (i). .ANCIENT INDIAN MATTING-FROM PETIT ANSE ISLAND, LOUISIANA. By Thomas Wilson. In the hall devoted to the collections of prehistoric anthropology inthe U. S. National Museum thereisexhibiteda mat of interlaced or wovenreed or cane which has been claimed, b^ reason of its locality, condi-tion, and association, to be evidence of the great antiquity of man, andas tending to establish his existence during the tertiary geologic period,*Plate cvii. The label affixed to this specimen tells its whole story. Specimen of ancient matting from Petit Anse Island, near Vermilion Bay, Coast ofLouisiana. Presented to the Smithsonian Institution by J. F. Cleu, esq., May, Anse Island is the locality of the remarkable mine of salt roLt discoveredduring the late rebellion, and from which, for a considerable period of time, theSouthern States derived a great part of their supply of this article. The s
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