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full complements of parts, are of ordinary form, though of fairly good ware. 
Many are plain. In decoration the complicated stamp largely predominates. 
Several examples of uniform coating of red pigment were met, while the small 
check stamp and elementary incised decoration each are once represented. 
Part of a vessel that had borne a handsome, punctate design, skilfully wrought 
(recalling ware found by us on this river at the time of our first visit), and a 
fragment belonging to it, lay many feet apart, thus further illustrating that the 
well-known ceremonial custom of breaking and scattering earthenware had ob- 
tained in this region in aboriginal times. 
Two open-work vessels came from this mound, the more interesting having 
eight excised portions in the upper part of the body, just below the neck, which 
is somewhat flaring and bears a rather rude line and punctate decoration as 
shown in Fig. 29. Both receptacles have holes knocked through the base in 
addition to those excised from the body before the firing of the clay. 
Two bowls each having the head of a bird as an ornament above the rim were 
found, and also part of a vessel that entire would be somewhat unusual, a large 
representation of the beak of a bird projecting from the body of the vessel, eyes 
being represented by perforations with countersunk margins. 
Where determinable, basal perforations made after firing were noted in all 
the vessels from this mound. 
ABORIGINAL CEMETERY NEAR CARRABELLE, FRANKLIN COUNTY. 
About 1.5 mile north northeast from the town of Carrabelle, on the Gulf coast, 
is a low ridge (any elongated elevation, however slight, in this level territory is 
called a ridge) covered with scrub and scattered pine, having its eastern ex- 
tremity almost enclosed by a small, shallow, fresh-water pond somewhat in the 
form of a horseshoe. This ridge is of white sand on the surface, darkened by 
vegetal deposit and the charcoal of fires that have spread over it. Below the 
white sand, which is from four inches to one foot in depth, is yellow sand of 
uniform shade. 
For some reason not disclosed, a citizen of Carrabelle had selected this barren 
ridge as a likely spot to dig for treasure, and had prodded it over and put down 
numerous holes in it, the eastern end, where he came upon many fragments of 
aboriginal earthenware, being literally covered with his small excavations. 
This seeker after buried treasure, not embittered by lack of success, sent us 
word that if we desired Indian pottery, we should search the ridge, adding how 
the locality could be reached. 
A trench was dug by us longitudinally through that part of the eastern end 
of this ridge where the fragments of pottery had been thrown out and where 
many also had been found in place by our sounding rods. 
Possibly some sherds were left by us outside of the part dug through, but 
1“ Mounds of the Lower Chattahoochee and Lower Flint Rivers." Journ. Асар. Nar. Sct. 
Рнпа., vol. XIII, p. 454. 
