562 THE NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA COAST REVISITED. 
ated ones when entire, and included in the way of decoration, the small check 
stamp, numerous examples of the complicated stamp, and some finely executed 
incised decoration, though unfortunately vessels thus adorned were not repre- 
sented by a full complement of parts. 
About 21 feet in was a small group of vessels, probably almost entire when 
interred though badly crushed when unearthed, including Vessels Nos. 8 and 9, 
of the *open-work"' class. These, put together and restored as to missing parts 
by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, New York City, are 
shown in Figs. 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 from photographs kindly furnished by that 
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institution. The catalogue numbers are respectively =. 2455 and 2456 
Fia. 34.— Vessel No. 9. Front view. Mound A, Bird Fic. 35.— Vessel No. 9. Side view. 
Hammock. (Height 9.1 inches.) 
While the pottery deposit extended along the base, such burials as were found, 
fifteen in number, were higher in the mound as a rule, though one burial, found 
near the margin, lay with the pottery deposit. These burials were mere fragments 
and traces of bones, save in one instance where not far from the center of the 
mound was a small deposit of calcined human remains. 
In sand, away from burials, found separately, were a small sheet of mica and 
an oblong quartz pebble showing no sign of use as a imer, though its shape 
was adaptable to such a purpose. 
