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figures are sufficiently complete to permit a practical restoration of 

 the full design. While I was observing the unique and remarkable 

 nature of these designs and their dissimilarity to the ornamental 

 designs of the surrounding areas in the United States, the idea of 

 comparing them with the decorative conceptions of the West Indies 

 occurred to me. The result of this study has been presented in a 

 separate paper." 



Researches made by Mr Clarence B. Moore in 1902 among the 

 mounds of the west coast of Florida, between St Andrews bay on the 

 west and Cedar keys on the east, have brought to light a remarkable 

 series of vases, a few specimens of which I am 

 able to add at the last moment in plates lxxix, 

 i.xxix A, and lxxix b. Several exceptional 

 features appear, among which are certain com- 

 pound and eccentric forms, bird shapes displa}'- 

 ing most interesting treatment of wings and 

 other features; and pierced walls, the openings 

 representing the interspaces of the designs. 

 The well-marked local characters grade off into 

 western, northern, and eastern forms, so that no decided break occurs 

 at any point. Stamp-decoi'ated ware displaying a great variety of the 

 highly elaborate figures occurs everywhere in association with the 

 prevailing variety.* 



Miscellaneous Specimens 



Fig. .54.— Bowl with thicli col- 

 lar, Tampa V)ay. Diameter 

 8^ inches. 



Associated with the above-described ware along the Gulf .shore are 

 bowl-shaped vessels characterized by a peculiar thickening of the lip 



Fig. .>! — Sections of thick-rimmed bowls, Karly county, (ieorgia. 



or I'im, and by the presence, in many cases, of red coloration. The 

 largest collection of these vessels in our possession comes from a vil- 

 lage site in Early county, Georgia, although specimens are found 

 about Mobile bay and all along the west coast of Florida to Tampa and 

 even father south. They are best illustrated by the collections of Mr 

 A. S. Gaines and Mr K. M. Cunningham, now in the National Museum. 

 These vessels, mainly in fragments, are not separable from the other 



"Holmes, W. H., Caribbean influence on the prehistoric ceramic art of the southern states, in the 

 American Anthropologist, vol. vir. number 1, January, 1.S94. 



''Moore, Clarence B., Certain aboriginal remains of the northwest Florida coast, part ii, Philadel- 

 phia, 1902. 



