Although effigies have been an important component of the ritual ceramic repertoire, many more forms are added to the inventory beginning in the fourteenth century. They embrace a wide variety of forms, including alligator, anhinga, animal, basket, bat, bear, beaver, bird, buffalo horn, canoe, cat monster, corn, corn god, crawfish, deer, dog, duck, fish, frog, goose, gourd or squash, hawk, human, mace, opossum, otter, owl, rabbit, serpent, shell, shell univalve, turkey, turtle, underwater monster, unidentified animal, unknown, whelk shell, and zoomorph
