178 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS OF THE NW. FLORIDA COAST. 



stamp on certain coarse sherds, was of the incised and punctate variety which 

 demands more originality and artistic ability than does the complicated stamp so 

 prevalent in the mounds of this district. 



Vessel No. 1. — This vessel, of excellent yellow ware, shown in Fig. 81, lay 

 with a mass of bones. On the upper portion punctate markings constitute a field 

 on which two rattlesnakes with highly conventionalized heads apjjear in relief. 

 In this connection it is interesting to compare the rattlesnake decoration on the 

 two vessels from the Hall mound, described and figured later, where heads much 



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Fig. 81. — Vessel No. 1. Mound near Davis Point. l.\bout six-seventlis size.) 



less conventionalized- are given. Between the rattlesnakes, on either side, is an 

 incised figure somewhat resembling a flying bird, shown in diagram (Fig. 82). The 

 wings, if such they are, of one point downward ; one wing of the other is raised. On 

 examining the vessel, however, one can see the outline, faintly incised, of a lowered 

 wing, which could not be completed owing to lack of space and, therefore, a raised 

 wing was substituted. Beneath one rattlesnake is a rude cross shown in the half- 

 tone. There are handles ^Jrojecting obliquely from the rim, connecting with the 

 heads of the snakes. Maximum diameter, 7 inches; height, 5.5 inches. 

 Vessel No. 4. — A small cup shown in Fig. 83. 



