438 LOWER CHATTAHOOCHEE AND LOWER FLINT RIVERS. 
including a trench across from west to east and a central excavation more than 15 
feet in diameter. 
While we were well aware that little but gleanings could await our search, 
we practically dug the mound through a second time, finding in some small, undis- 
turbed parts a few fragments of decaying human bones. 
Evidently there had been in the eastern part of the mound the customary 
ceremonial deposit made for the dead in common, inasmuch as many sherds, and 
large fragments of vessels which 
had been broken presumably by 
the previous digger, were found 
in disturbed sand. The ware, 
which ranges from ordinary to 
excellent, when decorated, bears : 
the small check-stamp; the com- 
plicated stamp, one variety being 
shown in Fig. 18; rude punctate 
decoration ; incised parallel lines ; 
incised decoration of complicated 
design, superior in every way. 
Lying on its side, so that pre- 
vious digging had passed above it, 
was an interesting vessel about 
Ега. 13.—Sherd. Mound near Shoemake Landing. (Half size.) 11 inches in height, and with a 
maximum diameter of 8.5 inches, 
representing an owl (Figs. 14, 15). The head, incised and in relief, has the beak 
missing through former breakage. The wings are incised, as is the tail, on each 
side of which is the leg-symbol so well known on the western coast of Florida and 
elsewhere. The feathers are represented by punctate markings as hair sometimes 
is indicated in early Egyptian art! The entire decoration on this interesting ves- 
sel is shown diagrammatically in Fig. 16. It has not been found possible to draw 
the decoration exactly to scale and to preserve the resemblance to the original at 
the same time; consequently the periphery of the field has been somewhat enlarged. 
The base of this vessel has been knocked out, and many scattered fragments 
of earthenware from the mound indicated a mutilation of other vessels. 
MOUND NEAR ЕгілмокЕ в UPPER Lanpine, Houston County, ALA. 
This mound, apparently untouched previous to our investigation, with the 
exception of a small hole in the center and a certain leveling due to recent cultiva- 
tion, was in the southern end of a large corn-field, about a mile and a half in a 
SSW. direction from Fullmore’s Upper Landing, on property of Mr. Coy Thompson, 
of Columbia, Ala, 
The mound, which was completely demolished by us, had an average height 
' Jean Capart, “ Primitive Art in Egypt,” Figs. 128, 129. 
