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The deposits of pottery found centrally in the cemetery varied greatly in 
size and consisted usually of piles of mingled fragments of various earthenware 
vessels, among which it was impossible to find nearly the full complement of any. 
One exception to this rule, however, was a deposit consisting of all the fragments 
of a vessel having two compartments communicating at the base and resting on 
four feet. It bears a rude attempt at trailed decoration (Fig. 30). There are 
three ceremonial holes, one broken through the base and one near the bottom of 
the outer side of each compartment. 
Three small bowls found separately, each having the ceremonial hole knocked 
through the base, were the only otherwise entire vessels found. 
The earthenware from this place is yellow, fairly hard, and tempered with 
coarse sand. In form nearly all the ware had consisted of bowls and pots, some 
of the latter fairly large and having four feet. 
The decoration is almost exclusively the imprint of the basket in which, evi- 
dently, the vessels had been made. А few sherds bear the check stamp, and 
several have interesting punctate designs applied with considerable symmetry. 
A selection of sherds from this place is shown in Fig. 31. 
Fic. 31.—Fragments of earthenware vessels. Aboriginal cemetery near Carrabelle. (About two- 
thirds size. 
60 JOURN. A. N. 8. PHILA., VOL. XVI. 
