fire-mottled

Updated: August 24, 2026

The lip is supplied with a narrow, horizontal rim. The body expands somewhat abruptly from the base of the upright neck to the squarish shoulder, and contracts below in an even curve, giving a hemispherical base. These vessels are nearly all of the dark, grayish-brown, fire-mottled ware. A few are yellowish, and such are often painted red or decorated with designs in red and white.

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