306 MISCELLANEOUS INVESTIGATION IN FLORIDA. 
sometimes in masses. In other parts of the basal area of the mound were single 
flexed burials, as well as bunched burials with sometimes a single skull and some- 
times several crania. There were, also, two closely-flexed skeletons in graves 
below the base, and among the skeletons at the base, which were somewhat 
loosely flexed as a rule, were two in a state of close flexion, In the body of 
the mound, but showing no sign of being intrusive, were two flexed burials and 
many bunched burials. 
As the burials were numerous in this mound, and often encroached one upon 
another, it was deemed best to score singly such burials as were surely flexed and 
to keep a tally of the skulls found in bunched burials and where, through com- 
mingling of interments, it was impossible to say just what the form of burial had 
been. 
There were, then: four closely-flexed burials and thirty-seven burials loosely 
flexed; one skeleton with the lower part cut off by an aboriginal grave. In addi- 
tion, 177 skulls were found. Thus, during our second investigation, burials repre- 
senting 219 individuals were unearthed. 
The bones, as a rule, showed considerable decay. But three skulls were saved 
in good condition; these, preserved at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 
delphia, are numbered 2228, 2229 and 2230, respectively. 
This mound, following the rule among mounds of southern Florida, where 
earthenware plays but a small part among objects placed with the dead, contained 
but one whole vessel—a rude, undecorated bowl, about 7 inches in diameter, imper- 
forate as to the base. This bowl, seemingly, was not associated with human 
remains. 
There were also in the mound, scattered here and there, various sherds, as 
well as parts of vessels each represented by three or four fragments. Іп all cases, 
save one, the ware is inferior. 
Fic. 6.—Sherd. Mound on Pine Island. (Half size.) 
As might be expected in earthenware found so far south in the peninsula, but 
little decoration is present on the pottery from this mound. Three or four frag- 
ments of one vessel show a roughly executed, incised and punctate design (Fig. 6). 
The ubiquitous small check-stamp was three times encountered. 
