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While all vessels from this mound were of most inferior quality, numbers of 

 sherds were of excellent yellow paste and decorated with crimson paint or with 

 incised designs, showing that the aborigines who built the mound could hold their 

 own in pottery making with any in this region. 



One sherd, shown in Fig. 140, lay with others in undisturbed sand. 



In Fig. 141 is shown a complicated stamp design from this mound. 



Mound near Indian Pass Point, Franklin County. 

 This mound, on property of Mr. James L. Smith, li\ing nearby, lay among 



sand-blows and dunes near the Gulf shore, about three quarters of a mile in a WSW. 



direction from the Point. Its outline was irregular. Its height was difficult to 



determine owing to its irregular surface ; 

 perhaps 3 feet would be a fair average. 

 The diameter of base E. and W. was 49 feet 

 and 53 feet N. and S. A small amount of 

 digging had been done by others shortly 

 before our visit. The mound was totally 

 demolished by us. It consisted of white 

 sand, gra3'-ish sand, and yellow sand at the 

 bottom with no regularity of stratification. 



Fig. 143. — Vessel No. 1. Mound near Indian Pass Point. 

 (Half size.) 



Burials began at the extreme margin 



on tlie south side and in the southeastern 

 part of the mound a little farther in. No 

 burials were found in the western and 

 northern parts until the central portion of 

 the mound was reached. 



The burials, which w^ere all of the 

 bunched variety, were very numerous but 

 were not counted by us, as masses of loose 

 bones often lay in contact with each other, making it impossible to say where one 

 burial ended and another began. Many skulls had marked anterior and posterior 

 flattening. 



In this mound was no marginal deposit of artifacts, such as were found being 



Fig. 142.- 



-Hatchet. Mound near Indian Pass Point. 

 (Full size.) 



