160 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS OF THE NW. FLORIDA COAST. 



Vessel No. 1 was met with at the extreme ^-erge of the NW. side of the mound. 

 The body is rounded, the rim Hares slightly. The ware is most inferior. This ves- 

 sel, which has four feet and faint traces of decoration, is without the basal perforation. 



In the margin of the eastern part of the mound were numbers of sherds, several 

 of good ware, many bearing the small check stamp. Among these, several feet 

 apart, were portions of a dish of excellent ware, undecorated. In common with all 

 the vessels in this mound, except the one first described, it had the basal perforation. 



Vessel No. 3. — Triangular, with rounded corners, with slight traces of punctate 

 and incised decoration. A handle fastened by pressure on the clay before baking is 

 missing and was not present with the vessel. Length, 4.5 inches; height, 2 inches. 



Ten other vessels were in the same deposit, all within a few feet of each other. 

 Some were broken ; all were of ordinary form, without decoration or with a rude 

 check stamp, or, in one case, with rough incised lines. 



There was no central deposit in this mound, but considerably farther in than 

 the vessels just noted were two others, or parts of them, in fragments. Their 

 decoration, seemingly, was conferred by basket work. 



Mound near Anderson's Bayou, Washington County. 



Anderson's bayou joins the E. side of North bay about 5 miles up. The mound, 

 on property belonging to Mr. A. J. Gay, whose home is not far distant, is in thick 

 hammock about 50 yards from the eastern side of the bayou and about one-quarter 

 of a mile up. The height of the mound was 2 feet 4 inches ; its basal diameter, 55 

 feet. The mound, into which three comparatively small holes had been dug prior 

 to our visit, was completely leveled by us. It proved to be of yellow sand, except 

 in the neighborhood of earthenware, where the sand had the customary darkened 

 appearance. 



Presumably, human remains to a certain extent had disappeared through decay 

 as burials were found in four places only. These consisted of three skulls, together ; 

 certain small pieces of a skull ; a skull with a few pieces of long-bone ; and several 

 fras;ments of lon2;-bones without a skull. There were also in the mound a few bits 

 of calcined bone, but none of a size large enough to determine whether they were 

 human or otherwise. 



There were present in the mound, unassociated with human remains, though 

 bones may have decayed in their immediate vicinity : a bead of red argillite, nearly 

 cylindrical, .85 of an inch in length and .55 of an inch in maximum diameter; two 

 small fragments of sheet copper, near the surface ; a sheet of mica ; four bits of rock 

 together. In association were bits of rock, pebble-hammers, smoothing stones, 

 broken hones, four bits of Fulgur ; a pebble with a semicircular space worn in the 



side, and numerous pebbles. 



We have frequently found in the mounds round or cylindrical pebbles seem- 

 ingly too small for use as pebble-hammers. These pebbles, often lying together as 

 though at one time deposited within a receptacle, we believe to have been sling- 

 stones. Cabega de Vaca^ says the Indians began " to throw clubs at us and to sling 



' Chapter X, p. 37. Buckingham Smith's translation. 



