516 THE NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA COAST REVISITED. 
expenditure of serviceable pottery and hence arose a refinement of the custom, 
widespread in Florida and met with by us at one place even in western Louisiana,’ 
namely, the manufacture of mortuary vessels otherwise useless, of inferior ware 
as a rule and having a basal perforation made previous to the firing of the clay. 
Probably through this class a further evolution is found (along рагі? of the 
northwestern Florida coast and its hinterland, including some mounds on the 
Apalachicola,’ Chattahoochee and Flint rivers*), namely, the “openwork” vessel, 
having ready-made excisions in the body of the vessel, which often formed parts 
of the decoration. Vessels of this class, first discovered by the expeditions of the 
Academy of Natural Sciences and described in the Journal of the Academy, are 
to be seen, at the present writing (1917), in no other institution, we believe. 
The desire to obtain other examples of this class of ware and the added hope 
to discover more of another class, namely, those superb bowls forming a part of 
the urn-burials found mostly to the westward! of the locale of the openwork ware, 
were the motives suggesting to us a second visit to the northwestern Florida 
coast. In this purpose we were encouraged by the knowledge that the population 
there had greatly increased in number since the period of our first visit, and that 
the consequent spread of cultivation in places hitherto unreclaimed, must have 
brought to the attention of inhabitants mounds, even though small (for we were con- 
vinced we had investigated all the large ones), as to which we could learn by inquiry. 
A feature in the archeology of the northwestern coast of Florida, in addition 
to that of the ceremonial “killing” of pottery, is that almost without exception a 
deposit of earthenware is found in the eastern part of the mounds, and that little 
else was put by the aborigines in the way of a ceremonial deposit, elsewhere in 
the mound or individually with the dead. 
This custom inured to our benefit, for treasure-seekers and diggers from the 
neighborhood of the mounds usually contented themselves with a hole in the 
central part and presumably rarely obtained more than the physical benefit 
derived from outdoor exercise. 
Mr. F. W. Hodge, on the eve of his departure for field work in New Mexico, has sent the following 
note: ‘Cushing in his paper on the work of the Hemenway Expedition, published in the Proceedings 
of the VII International Congress of Americanists held at Berlin in 1888 and published in 1890 [page 
172], refers to the ‘killing’ of pottery vessels by the ancient inhabitants of the Salt River Valley, 
Arizona. 
“The same custom was practised also by the ancients of the Mimbres Valley in New Mexico, 
as described by Fewkes in a paper published by the Smithsonian Institution three or four years ago. 
“The mortuary vessels unearthed by me at the ruins of the pueblo of Hawikuh, near Zuni, last 
summer were killed by being thrown into the graves and thus broken to pieces.” 
1 Lake Larto, Catahoula Parish. ‘‘Some Aboriginal Sites in Louisiana and in Arkansas." 
Journ. Acap. Nat. Scr. Puia., vol. XVI. 
? From the western extremity of St. Andrews Bay to the Warrior River, inclusive. 
3 “Certain Aboriginal Mounds of the Central Florida West-Coast; Certain Aboriginal Mounds of 
the Apalachicola River." Journ. Асар. Nar. Scr. Puiua., vol. XII. 
* Moundville Revisited; Crystal River Revisited; Mounds of the lower Chattahoochee and lower 
Flint Rivers." Journ. Асар. Nar. Scr. Paita., vol. XIII. 
4 Choctawhatchee Bay, Santa Rosa Sound, Perdido Bay. “Certain Aboriginal Remains of the 
Northwest Florida Coast, Part I." 
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