544 THE NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA COAST REVISITED. 
eremated into small fragments. Centrally were two bunched burials of limited 
size, and part of a skull alone. 
Also near the center of the mound were bits of an ornament of sheet-copper 
and a fragment of human skull which the copper salt had preserved. No other 
bones were near. This affords an example of how skeletal remains may disap- 
pear, since but for the presence of the copper salt no trace of this burial would 
have remained. 
Apart from burials were: a small celt of sedimentary rock; a thick sheet of 
mica; a mass of graphite, dark and soft, somewhat worked out, perhaps for 
paint. 
Beginning at the eastern part of the mound, at the very margin, and contin- 
uing in about 8 feet was the ceremonial deposit of pottery, made up almost 
entirely of vessels that had been put in whole (though some were crushed when 
found) or having only minor parts missing through former breakage. All these 
had the usual perforation knocked through the base. 
Comparatively few fragments were with this deposit, which consisted of 
twenty-one vessels, without any deposits made up of miscellaneous bits of earth- 
enware from various vessels, such as one often finds in this region. 
A few thin sheets of mica, and at one place a deposit of charcoal about 1.5 
foot by 2 feet, lay with the earthenware. 
The following vessels from this mound merit special description: 
Vessel No. 1. A vessel of excellent ware bearing in relief an effigy of the 
head of a horned owl from which a small part of the beak is missing (Plate XIV). 
Deeply incised decoration is about the head; the wings, in relief, also have an 
incised design, while another, shown in diagram in Fig. 20, represents the tail. 
Fic. 20.—Vessel No. 1. Decoration. (Two-thirds size.) 
Vessel No. 2, in fragments, of which a number are missing, has been of the 
open-work variety, small portions having been excised in places around the 
upper part of its body. In addition it has had an incised conventionalized repre- 
sentation of a rattlesnake, a most interesting design, from which, however, so 
much is missing that restoration is impossible. 
Vessel No. 3, found broken but with all parts present, bears five deeply incised 
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