POTTERY OF CHOCTAWHATCHEE BAY 



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ba}', on which an eagle and an eaole-man mask are inscribed. These 

 figures are shown in plate lxix. Plate Lxxa illustrates a curious 

 dish with elaborate incised and indented designs representing conven- 

 tionalized life forms. A rude bowl with highly- conventional bird 

 symbols appears in l>. Both specimens were perforated before burial. 

 In c we have the top view of a liowl with incurved I'im. about the lip 

 of which are engraved devices probabh' intended to represent the 



fi'og- 



The most striking and instructive ware yet bi'ought from the Gulf 

 coast was obtained by Mr Moore from Point Washington, on the 

 eastern margin of Choctawhatchee bay. just south of Jolh' T)ay. Here 

 the local group of ware pre\ails to a large extent, but two or three other 

 varieties take a prominent 



place, not. apparentlv. as — _~ 



a result of the intrusion .-.,.. .'^ 



of outside peoples or of 

 theii- ware, but through 

 the adoption by local pot- 

 ters of the forms and 

 symbols of neighboring 

 districts. The exotics are 

 the stamped ware of the 

 Appalachian district to 

 the north, and two or 

 more varieties of some- 

 what well differentiated 

 Florida pottery. Plate 

 Lxxi includes a large 

 number of the bowls, 

 ladles, etc.. in outline, 

 and specimens of excep- 

 tional interest appear 

 in plates lxxii-lxxia'. 

 Plate Lxxii illustrates three j^ieces which resemble the Mobile- 

 Pensacola ware, but show rather exceptional forms and decorations. 

 The deeply incised lines of the elaborate patterns have, in two of 

 the specimens, been filled in with some white substance, giving a 

 striking effect and reminding one of Central American methods of 

 treatment. 



These people had a marked fancy for embellishing their vases with 

 animal forms, and birds and beasts liave ))een much utilized. In plate 

 Lxxiii we have throe fine bowls embodying the frog concept, parti}' in 

 low relief and partly in very conventional incised lines. Plate lxxit 

 contains two delineations, probably of the owl. The interesting point 



Fig. 53— Fragment o£ vessel with stamijed desigu, from Wal- 

 tons Camp, Choctawhatchee bay, Florida. 



