184 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS OF THE NW. FLORIDA COAST. 



Usuallj^ closely associated with burials were eight celts, gracefully shaped as a 

 rule and tapsring to a blunt point opposite the cutting edge, the longest having a 

 length of 10.2 inches. One had an edge so blunt, though smooth and rounded, that 

 it would seem to have been made for a purpose other than to cut. 



There were also in the mound : a barbed arrowhead of chert, found with a 

 burial ; mica in several places ; a large hammer-stone. 



In caved sand was a beautifully wrought barbed lance-head of chert, 5.6 inches 

 in length and .25 of an inch in maximum thickness (Fig. 96). 



After the marginal sherds, a few feet farther in, associated with a great mass 

 of bones, continuing to the center of the mound from the eastern part, at times 

 extending to the NE. on one side, to ESE. on the other, were numbers of vessels 

 and parts of vessels and deposits of sherds mixed together. Many of the fragments, 



Fig. 97. — Sherd. Mound near Pearl Bayou. 

 (Four-fifths size.) 



Fig. 98. — Sherd. Mound near Pearl Bayou. 

 (One-third size.) 



no doubt, belonged to vessels intentionally broken and scattered through the mound 

 by the aborigines at its building. 



Thirty-three vessels were noted by us as found entire or having nearly a full 

 complement of fragments. As a rule the ware was inferior and little care seemed 

 to have been taken with the decoration. The check-stamp was present on a few 

 vessels and on many sherds. The complicated stamp was sparingly represented. 

 Two specimens are shown in Figs. 97, 98. 



We shall now take in detail the most noteworthy vessels, all of which but three 

 had the basal perforation. 



Vessel No. 2. — A pot with a small check-stamp as decoration. The ware is 

 extraordinarily thick and heavy. 



