l8 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 76 



Plate 10, B, shows a view of the vessel (pi. 9, B) from above. The 

 designs at two ends of a diameter are almost the same and bear 

 identical decoration. This bowl recalls that just considered, with 

 the exception that its general form is globular with an in-curved rim 

 undecorated, and there is only one unit of decoration. 



Plate 9, C, also represents a globular bowl, the decoration of which 

 may be highly conventionalized figures like serpents winding about 

 the bowl, the outlines indicated like the others by punctures. This 

 bowl is one of the most symmetrical of all those that were found, 

 and the design is the only one suggesting the serpent. 



Plate 9, D, D, likewise represents a small globular bowl which 

 has two units of decoration similar in design. It is not perfectly 

 spherical but has knobs or mammae-like elevations at opposite ends 

 of the longer axis. These knobs bear as unique decorations (pi. 10, 

 D), conventional forms which cannot be identified. This bowl is 

 smaller than the two just mentioned and was one of a nest of ten, six 

 of which were broken and four entire. 



Perhaps the most remarkable of all these bowls is shown in plate 

 II, which recalls in its general form the cylindrical ceremonial vases 

 discovered in great numbers by Mr. G. H. Pepper in one of the 

 rooms of the great pueblo ruin, Pueblo Bonito, in New Mexico. 

 Although broken when found it was cleverly mended by Mr. Egbert, 

 who cemented the decorated fragments together and restored the 

 vessel to its original form, as shown in plate 11. This vessel may 

 likewise have been ceremonial. It is too small for use as a food bowl, 

 and was made and decorated with the greatest care. The portions 

 which have been added in repairing it are plainly indicated. So far 

 as the author has examined the collections previously made in 

 Florida, they contain no specimen of the same general form as this, 

 although one collected from Tarpon Springs by Mr. Gushing has 

 a similar ornamentation. 



In the next plate (pi. 12, D) there is represented a globular bowl 

 but the incised figure on it is so much worn that it is difficult to de- 

 cipher. Its general character is the same as that on plate 9, B. 



We also found at Weeden ]\Iound a few bowls of globular form 

 (pi. 21, E) that are destitute of decoration, which shows that this 

 form of vessel is not rare in the mound. These bowls were some- 

 times cached or thrown in a heap, and it is instructive that all were 

 found together in the upper layer. Several simple small globular 



