152 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS OF THE NW. FLORIDA COAST. 



mound. The small check stamp was absent. Scalloped margins abounded. The 

 condition of most of this pattery, thin and of inferior ware, ground together by 

 pressure of sand after continued soaking for a long term of years, can well be 

 imagined. In most cases our efforts to preserve the fragmentary vessels -was baffled, 

 while but few of those saved merit special mention. 



Vessel No. 5. — A globular undecorated body of about 1 pint capacity with part 

 of what had been a solid handle projecting upward at an angle. This vessel is of 

 the class modelled after gourds. 



Vessel No. 15. — A globular body of yellow ware, which probably had a flat 

 base. Almost the entire neck, which was flaring, is missing through an old fracture. 

 The decoration, incised, is made up of a series of two concentric circles surrounded 

 by other designs as shown in Fig. 34. Maximum diameter, 8.2 inches. 



Vessel No. 24. — Of yellow ware, almost semi- 

 globular bod}', tapering somewhat at the base. 

 The rim flares slightly. The interesting incised 

 decoration consists of two large similar designs on 

 opposite sides, one of which is shown in Fig. 35. 

 There are two smaller designs, also alike, one of 

 which is given in diagram. Fig. 36. Maximum 

 diameter, 7 inches ; height, 5.5 inches. 



Vessel No. 34. — A small vessel almost a per- 

 fect globe, with small aperture and slightly pro- 

 jecting rim. This vessel, of about a pint capacity, 

 when removed from the wet sand was of a bright 

 crimson which faded when dry. 



Vessel No. 35. — A pot of yellow ware with 

 scalloped margin. The decoration, a complicated 

 stamp, is distinctly impressed (Fig. 37). Height, 

 10 inches ; maximum diameter, 9 iiiches. 



Vessel No. 44. — Badly crushed, had four small 



feet. 



Vessel No. 64. — A pot of yellow ware expanding slightly toward the rim, which 



is scalloped. The decoration is a zigzag stamp identical with that shown on a sherd 



from this mound. Maximum diameter, 10 inches; height, somewhat impaired by 



loss of the base, 9.8 inches. 



Vessels Nos. 65 and 66. — Toy bowls, 2.3 inches and 1.8 inches in diameter, 

 respectively, found together a little apart from the main deposit. 



Three sherds with complicated stamp decoration are shown in Figs. 



Fig. 36.— Vessel No. 24. Decoration. Mound 

 near Alligator Bayou. (Half size.) 



58, 39, 40. 



Mound near Fanning's Bayou, Washington County. 

 Fanning's bayou joins North bay from the north about five miles up the bay. 

 The mound, which had been dug into to a small extent only, was on the edge 

 of a hammock, about one mile in a NW. direction from Anderson P. 0., which is 



