CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS OF THE N^y. FLORIDA COAST. 169 



With the skeleton of a child were many small shells [Marginella apicina)} 

 perforated for use as beads. 



A pendant of igneous rock was found unassociated with human remains and a 

 smoking pipe of steatite lay in sand thrown out by previous diggers. 



Beginning with the burials and continuing with them until the end, were great 

 numbers of sherds, parts of vessels and vessels unbroken or crushed but with full 

 complement of parts. This deposit of earthenware, which included 53 vessels entire 

 or, when broken, with all but small parts present, began at the margin with great 

 numbers of sherds, undecorated or having the check stamp as a rule. Next came 

 a few scattered vessels and, shortly after, the first burials were found. Thence on, 

 earthenware and burials continued more or less closeh associated, a burial at times 

 being almost in direct contact with two or three vessels. 



All earthenware in this mound, as far as noted, had the usual base-perforation, 

 as did a shell drinking cup associated with the pottery, and lay in sand blackened 

 with organic matter. 



Though much of the ware in this mound was broken, perhaps through close 

 contact, vessels sometimes being one within another, and once even a vessel, con- 

 tained in another, itself held a third, yet a considerable amount was recovered 

 intact, or nearly so. Unfortunately, the decoration, mainly incised and punctate, 

 only four vessels having the complicated stamp, does not average as high from an 

 artistic point of view as does that from certain other mounds in this district. 



We shall now describe the more notable vessels 

 from this mound. 



Vessel No. 1. — Almost an inverted truncated 

 cone in shape with punctate decoration shown in 

 Fig. 6S. There are holes on opposite sides for sus- 

 pension. Height, 3.1 inches; maximum diameter, 

 2 inches. 



Vessel No. 3.. — Of ordinary form with two encir- 

 cling bands, the upper formed of three rows of up- 

 right linear impressions ; the other, a little less than 

 1 inch below, of two rows of larger impressions of 

 the same st3'le. 



Vessel No. 5. — A pot of about 1 pint capacity, 

 covered with rows of small circular impressions, 

 probably made with the end of a reed. 



Vessel No. 14. — Oblate spheroid with incised and 









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nctate decoration as shown in Fig. 69. Height, 



Fig. 68.— Vessel No. 1. 

 (Full size. 



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4.3 inches; maximum diameter, 10.5 inches. 



Vessel No. 18. — Ovoid, has for decoration three 

 encircling rows of punctate linear impressions. In addition to the basal perfora- 

 tion, two others have been made on the side. 



' All shells referred to in this report have been determined by Dr. H. A. Pilsbry, of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences. 



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