. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. the?«6f/(/e only was ornamented. The lines are mostly drawn with great regularity, and sometimes one-eighth of an inch wide, with a corresponding depth. I obtained, however, from the deposit at the Cahokia creek one small fragment, which ex- hibits a much higher degree of skill in the art of decoration than any of the others 0 found at the same place. Figure 9 represents it in full size. This specimen is about three-sixteenths of an inch th
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. the?«6f/(/e only was ornamented. The lines are mostly drawn with great regularity, and sometimes one-eighth of an inch wide, with a corresponding depth. I obtained, however, from the deposit at the Cahokia creek one small fragment, which ex- hibits a much higher degree of skill in the art of decoration than any of the others 0 found at the same place. Figure 9 represents it in full size. This specimen is about three-sixteenths of an inch thick, and consists of clay with an admixtxire of pulverized granite, the components of which—quartz, feldspar, and mica—can be plainly distinguished in the fracture. It is well baked and of a light-gray color. The ornamental lines and notches are im- pressed, or, perhaps, scooped out, with the greatest accuracy, and the vessel, when complete, must have presented a very good specimen of aboriginal ceramic art. Whoever compares the annexed drawing with Fig. 5 on Plate 46 of the " Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley," by Squier and Davis, will find that the originals of the representations are nearly alike in point of ornamenta- tion. The latter drawing delineates a part of a vase found in one of the an- cient mounds of Ohio. Having seen the best specimens of " mound " pottery obtained during the survey of Messrs. Squier and Davis, I do not hesitate to assert that the clay vessels fabricated at the Cahokia creek were in every re- spect equal to those exhumed from the mounds of the Mississippi valley, and Dr. Davis himself, who examined my specimens from the first-named locality, expressed the same .^j3. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institu
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