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is that tht> conventional incised features representing tlie l)ody and 

 wings grade into tlie generalized ornament. 



Plate Lxxv rejjresents a handsome bowl with engraved design, 

 meant apparently for the frog, which was found hy Mr Moore inverted 

 over a skull in a gra\'e at Point Washington. Florida. 



Apalachicola Ware 



It is interesting to note that here and there along the Gulf coast 

 there are certain pieces of pottery that do not affiliate fully with tlie 

 ordinary ware and that at the same time appear to present closer 

 analogies with the wares of Yucatan and the Caribbean islands than do 

 any of the other varieties; such ^peculiarities are more marked in tlie 

 Choctawhatchee-Apalachicola section than elsewhere. The specimens 

 brought together in plates lxxvi and i.xxvii, belonging to Mr 

 Moore's Point Washington finds, offer, to my mind, these hints of 

 exotic influence. At the same time, they can not be divorced from 

 their close affiliations with the ware of the Gulf coast to the west and 

 with that of the Florida peninsula to the east. 



Two vessels of rather rude shajie are shown in plate lxxvi rf and i. 

 The upper jiart of the body is em>)ellished with a wide zone of stamjied 

 figures, such as are common over a vast area to the north and east of 

 Choctawhatchee bay. The most interesting feature of these designs 

 is that, though typical of the South Appalachian stamped v.-are, they 

 are seen at a glance to embody the commonest concepts of the Gulf 

 Coast group — the conventional life elements, in which the eye, the 

 teeth, and the body features of the creature arc still traceable. Similar 

 vessels are found toward the east, along the Florida coast, and appear 

 in connection with a group of vases typically developed on Apalachi- 

 cola drainage in Franklin county. The peculiar little \essel shown in 

 (■ has an oblong, flattened bodj', rudely suggesting an alligator's head. 

 The incised markings affiliate with the Mobile-Pensacola decoration. 

 Vase (I departs from western models, and approaches closely forms 

 of ware typically developed on the peninsula of Florida. The remain- 

 ing figure, e, is the top view of a small jar with a remarkable rounded 

 lip. Although th(> engraved designs embody the Gulf Coast life 

 elements, the method of execution departs radically from the normal 

 treatment. The elaborate figures are traced over nearly the entire 

 vessel, and are deeply incised, th(! channels being carefully carved out, 

 leaving rounded ridges between them. The form and the material 

 unite with the decoration in indicating a type of ware radically 

 different fi-om that of the iMobile-Ponsacola district, yet represented 

 by few other pieces in our collections. It affiliates most closely with 

 the Apalachicola forms. 



Equally distinct from the Mobile-Pensacola ware are the five pieces 

 shown in plate Lxxvii a, I, c, d, and e. In ornamentation their asso- 



