BOuiBs] DRINKING AND FOOD VESSELS. 197 



from the same shell, were obtained from mounds at Cedar Keys, Florida, 

 by Professor Wyman.' 



Francis Cleveland, C. E., who, in 1828, had charge of the excavation 

 known as the "deep cut" on the Ohio Canal, informed Colonel Whittle- 

 sey that at the depth of twenty-five feet in the alluvium several shells 

 belonging to the species Busycon perversum were taken out.^ 



Dr. Drake, writing of the Cincinnati mounds, mentions "several 

 large marine shells, belonging, perhaps, to the genus Buccinum, cut in 

 such a way as to serve for domestic utensils, and nearly converted into 

 a state of chalk." 3 



Mr. Atwater states that " several marine shells, probably Buccinum, 

 cut in such a manner as to be used for domestic utensils, were found in 

 a mound on the Little Miami Eiver, Warren County, Ohio."^ 



A Cassis of large size, from which the inner whorls and columella 

 had been removed to adapt it for use as a vessel, was found in Clark's 

 mound, on Paint Creek, Scioto Valley, Ohio.^ This specimen is eleven 

 and a half inches in length by twenty-four in circumference at the 

 largest part. It is further stated that fragments of these and other 

 shells are found in the tumuli and upon the altars of the mound-build- 

 ers, lu digging the Ohio and Erie Canal, there was found, near Ports- 

 mouth, its southern terminus on the Ohio Eiver, a cluster of five or six 

 large shells, which appeared to have been thus carefully deposited by 

 the hand of man. They were about three feet beneath the surface. The 

 columellse of some large shells, probably the Strombus gigas, were also 

 discovered.^ 



Severallarge marine shells were found in a moundnear Grand Rapids, 

 Mich. They were all hollowed out, apparently for carrying or storing 

 water, and in one case perforated at the upper edge on opposite sides 

 for suspension by a cord or thong.'' 



IMr. Farquharson mentions a vessel made from a Busycon perversum, 

 obtained from a mound near Davenport, Iowa. The shell has been cut 

 through about an inch above the center ; it is thirteen inches in length 

 by seven in width, and has a capacity of nearly two pints.^ He also 

 describes a large specimen of Cassis from a mound in Muscatine County, 

 Iowa.* 



Long, in his expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains in 



' Wyman, in Third Annual Report, Peabody Museum, p. 8. 

 'Foster: Prehistoric Races of the United States, p. 78. 



'Since the shell here named is quite small it is probable that the specimens found 

 were Busycons. 

 < Long's Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Vol. I, p. 361. 

 'Atwater, in Transactions American Antiquarian Society, Vol. L 

 *Squier and D.avis: Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley, p. 283, 

 ' J6iU, p. 284. 



" Farqnharson, in Proceedings of the Am. Association, 1875, page 296. 

 »Ibid., p. 297. 



