[Illustration: Figure 11. Human Effigy Head]
[Illustration: Figure 12. Painted Pottery _(1. A large shallow bowl with red painted design on buff background, painted areas intensified with water color, 2. Carson Red on Buff)_]
[Illustration: Figure 13. Decorated Pottery Sherds]
It was possible to identify vessel forms from 3.4% of the shell tempered sherds collected. These forms are listed and their frequency of occurrence shown in Table 4, Column I. The most common forms were the wide mouthed bowl of small to medium size and wide mouthed jars which showed extreme variation in size from small jars of perhaps a pint capacity to very large ones of several gallons capacity (Fig. 9). Water bottles were a very uncommon form of vessel if judged from the sherd collection.
Among the complete vessels recovered the water bottle was over 50% of the total while the sherd collection yielded only 1.3 of this class (Table 4). This is a strong example of a mortuary vessel form which found little use in the daily domestic scene. The water bottle at Lawhorn was apparently not a vessel of utility to the living but only to the dead.
TABLE 4—COMPARISON OF DOMESTIC AND MORTUARY VESSEL FORMS Column I Column II Column III Vessel Shape Vessel Shape Vessel Shape Vessel Shape From Sherds 31 Vessels 23 Mortuary Vessels
Water Bottles 1.3 45 52 Shallow Bowls 6.3 13 13 Deep Bowls 37 30 26 Plates 1.8 0 0 Jars 49 13 9 Salt Pans (?) 2.5 0 0 Flat Bases 3.3 61 65
The vessel forms found at Lawhorn can be described as bowls, jars and water bottles.
Three pottery bowls have almost vertical sides with flat bases (Fig. 14;1, 2, 3) while one very crude vessel with vertical sides is round bottomed. Three of the bowls are quite shallow, approaching the plate form but lacking the flattened plate rim (Fig. 14;5). The plate forms identified for Lawhorn were from the sherd collection and these represent 1.8% of the identified shapes. Four other bowls are small round-bottomed pots typical of the Memphis-St. Francis Mississippian groups.
The only recovered vessel showing painted decoration were two shallow bowls. One of these was Carson Red on Buff slipped on both the inside and outside surface (Fig. 12;1). It is a very shallow bowl with a diameter of 3 cm. and a depth of 8 cm. The lip was flat and scalloped around the outer edge. The interior had been painted with a red design composed of four large triangles drawn as opposing parts so that on two the apex was up while on the other pair it was down.