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with bones was the object of earthenware shown in Fig. 18. This object cannot 
be a trowel used in the smoothing of earthenware, the presence of the knob pre- 
cluding the idea. It most resembles a stopper for a bottle, but bottles in this 
region, when occasionally found, have wide mouths, so 
the question of identity remains an open one. 
The following burials are worthy of description in 
detail, giving as they do a fair conception of the inter- 
ments in general and showing how accompanying arti- 
facts lay in relation to them. 
Burial No. 2, fragments of bone, crowns of teeth of 
an adult. With these were two spearheads of flint, a 
celt, and the stopper-shaped object of earthen-ware 
already described. 
Burial No. 3, a few fragments of long-bone and 
crowns of teeth, having a large bowl inverted over 
them. Also inverted, on the base of the larger vessel 
and covering the ceremonial hole in it, was a small bowl, | - 
Ес. 18.— Object of earth- 
crushed when found. enware. Cemetery on Hog- 
Burial No. 5, under water. The digger stated he town Bayou. (Full size.) 
had observed traces of bones at first. All, however, 
had disappeared in the mingling of water and sand. With this presumable burial 
was a deposit of eight spearheads or arrowheads and knives, some broken; a 
small, quartz discoidal; nodules and chips of flint; bits of sandstone for hones. 
Burial No. 10, fragments of a skull covered by an inverted bowl on which was 
another bowl inverted. An ear-plug of shell was with the fragments of bone. 
Burial No. 17, part of a large, inverted bowl, under which no bones were 
found, though doubtless, as no sign of disturbance was present, some had been 
there. "This substitution of a part for the whole, in this connection, was repeat- 
edly noted by us here under conditions precluding any idea of previous distur- 
bance, which might account for the fragmentary condition of the bowl. 
On and over the basal perforation of the large fragment was a small, undecor- 
ated pot, erect. Beneath the fragment were two inverted vessels of medium 
size in which no trace of bones remained. Outside the large fragment, together, 
were an inverted vessel containing only clear sand, and a six-pointed platter, a 
form, we believe, not found outside this Florida coast region. 
Burial No. 19, small fragments of bone from a femur, pelvis, etc., not covered 
by a bowl but accompanied by a small, undecorated pot containing two large 
shell beads. Near this pot were a small bowl and another small pot. 
Burial No. 33, fragments of bone, some having belonged to a skull, covered 
by a large part of a vessel inverted and by a number of other fragments not 
belonging to the vessel of which the principal fragment was a part. Surmounting 
this deposit of broken pottery was an entire bowl inverted. 
Oxychloride of Tin," by Harry F. Keller. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. XXXIX, 
No. 11, November, 1917, p. 2354 et seq. 
