Fig. 294.
TRIPOD POTTERY VASE.
Four-armed volutes making spiral Swastika.
Arkansas. ⅓ natural size.
Fig. 295.
POTTERY BOWL WITH FIVE-ARMED SPIRAL
SWASTIKA ON THE BOTTOM.
Poinsett County, Ark. Cat. No. 114035, U. S. N. M.
The specimen shown in [fig. 296] is from the mound at Arkansas Post, in the county and State of Arkansas.[280] It represents a vase of black ware, painted a yellowish ground, with a red spiral scroll. Its diameter is 5½ inches. These spiral figures are not uncommon in the localities heretofore indicated as showing the normal Swastika. Figs. [297] and [298][281] show parallel incised lines of the same style as those forming the square in the bird gorgets already noted ([figs. 263-267]). [Fig. 297] shows a bowl nine inches in diameter; its rim is ornamented with the heart and tail of a conventional bird, which probably served as handles. On the outside, just below the rim, are the four incised parallel lines mentioned. In the center of the side is represented a rolling under or twisting of the lines, as though it represented a ribbon. There are three on each quarter of the bowl, that next the head being plain. [Fig. 298] represents a bottle 6½ inches in diameter, with parallel incised lines, three in number, with the same twisting or folding of the ribbon-like decoration. This twists to the left, while that of [fig. 297] twists in the opposite direction. Both specimens are from the vicinity of Charleston, Mo.
Fig. 296.
VESSEL OF BLACK WARE.
Spiral scroll. Arkansas.