THE NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA COAST REVISITED. 575 
in length. This object, which has been carefully smoothed, has a perforation 
near the proximal end, through which apparently a pin of bone or of antler, has 
been, a part remaining filling the perforation. This interesting object, submitted 
by us to a high authority who, it was hoped, might determine its former use, was 
lost in transit by the express company. | 
Burial No. 3, adult, having shell beads at the neck, some as large as the end of a 
human finger, had near the skull an undecorated bottle and two broken mussel- 
shells lying near it. 
Burial No. 4, adult. At the left humerus were fragments of mussel-shells 
and a small sandstone hone; over the left shoulder was an undecorated bottle. 
Burial No. 5, adult, had been discovered by prodding previous to our coming, 
and the skull, presumably with accompanying pottery, had been removed. 
Burial No. 6, a child. 
Burial No. 7, an adult, the skull of which was saved. Above the skull was a 
pile of fragments of a bottle which had borne in relief a symbol similar to the one 
to which reference has been made in connection with Burial No. 2. "These frag- 
ments evidently had been tossed in when the skull, which showed evidence of 
prodding, had been dug down to by some pot-hunter who, finding the vessel 
badly broken, had not cared to take it away. It has been cemented together, 
with some restoration, and with everything found at this place except the object 
of antler, has been presented by us to the Royal Ethnographical Museum, 
Stockholm, Sweden. 
MOUNDS NEAR TRANSYLVANIA, EAsT CARROLL PARISH, LOUISIANA. 
About 2 miles in from the Mississippi and in sight from the railroad station 
at Transylvania, on the extensive property of Messrs. Helgason Brothers (T. A, 
and E. B. Helgason) of Vicksburg, Mississippi, is a group of four mounds and 
two humps, of clay, all near together, as shown on the plan (Fig. 42) from a survey 
made by Dr. M. G. Miller at the time of our visit, the humps doubtless remainders 
of mounds once somewhat larger. 
The mounds, evidently at one time of the usual domiciliary shape found in 
southern United States (quadrangular with spacious flat tops) are now of very 
irregular outline through trampling of cattle and mules, wash of rain, and erosion 
of the basal parts in periods of flood in earlier times, though of late, we were in- 
formed, the land on which the mounds are, being somewhat higher than the 
surrounding terrain, has been but little affected when the levee has given way. 
The extensive wash of water to which the mounds have been subjected, while 
destroying their symmetry, has been an aid to investigation, inner parts formerly 
now being superficial, and gullies and channels, some as much as 8 feet in depth, 
having been cut in places along the sides. 
A careful search over exposed parts showed a few fragments of human bones 
on Mound C (see plan), and here and there on the group small bits of earthenware 
almost invariably undecorated and resembling the somewhat inferior ware of 
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