Duck Pot

Based on a duck motif four-footed pot, 5 ½ “ high

Clay

Mound City, Ross County, Ohio

Collection of Hopewell Culture National Historical Park

This small pot is incised on all four sides with a duck pattern. The abstracted design is similar to decoration carried out in many other media. The pot may have held a ceremonial offering; the floor where the ceremony took place was later mounded.