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rounded corners, though the opening of the vessel representing the base of the 
pyramid is somewhat constricted. There are four interesting designs, one on 
each side. In spite of considerable ceremonial breakage, in one instance from 
Fra. 16.—Vessel of earthenware. Mound near Basin Bayou. (Height 5.9 inches.) 
the inside out, and the absence of some of the fragments, the designs on each 
pair of opposite sides being the same save for minor details, we are able to form 
a clear idea of the ornamentation. One of the designs is shown on the vessel 
(Fig. 16), and the other in diagram (Fig. 17). The square, flat base of this 
vessel was intact when found, as was that of the vessel previously described. 
Near this ceremonial deposit was a small bowl, and in the southern part of 
the mound, together, were a small undecorated bowl and a vessel in many frag- 
ments, bearing a complicated stamp. 
ABORIGINAL CEMETERY ON Hocrown Bayou, WALTON COUNTY. 
In 1901, as we have stated, we carefully investigated the region bordering 
Perdido bay (the coast-boundary between Alabama and Florida), Pensacola 
1 Since our first visit to Hogtown bayou, that part of Washington county which then included 
the bayou has been added to Walton county. 
57 JOURN. A. N. 8. PHILA., VOL. XVI. 
