Figure 11. Human Effigy Head
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)
Figure 13. Decorated Pottery Sherds
Vessel Forms
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 From Sherds | Vessel Shape 31 Vessels | Vessel Shape 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 |