face-vessels

Updated: June 26, 2025

The middle portion of the face is finished with a light flesh-colored slip, the remainder of the surface of the vessel being painted a bright rich red. Like the preceding example, the countenance is made to give the appearance of death or sleep. Other face-vessels of scarcely less interest are found in the Thibault collection.

William Henry Holmes - Ancient Pottery of the Mississippi Valley: Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the: Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83,: Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 361-436