CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS OF THE NW. FLORIDA COAST. 22 



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A few shell beads lay near a skeleton of an infant. 



With Burial No. 93, a skeleton flexed on the left side, were a few shell beads 



near the neck, and at 



the shoulder, an unde- 



corated, imperforate 



vessel of about one-half 



pint capacity (Fig. 160). 

 A burial had a sheet 



of mica near the head. 

 Certain scattered 



Fig. 160.— Vessel with Buiial No. U^mpc 1„,, ;,, Qq^rl pnl- 

 93. Mound A. Pierce mounds, OOneS ia\ ni SaUCl COi- 

 uear Apalachicola. (Half size.) ^^.^^ ^^.\^]^ hematite. 



Loose in the sand were : a number of drink- 

 ingcups wrought from Ftilgiir perversurn, sev- 

 eral with perforated bases ; two arrowheads or 

 knives, of chert ; a rude chipped chisel of chert ; 

 a small pendant rather roughly made ; the usual 

 quota of hammer-stones, pebble hammers, peb- 

 bles, broken hones, etc. ; two pointed implements 

 made from the axis of Fulgur ; a few shell 

 beads in caved sand ; also in caved sand, a frag- 

 ment of sheet copper with fluted decoration, 

 badly carbonated; on the base, among the shells, 

 a o-orget of bone, elongated oval, made from the 

 femur of a bison,^ perforated for suspension at 

 one end, 7.1 inches long, 2 inches in maximum 

 width (Fig. 161). 



Also unassociated was a small vessel with 

 globular body, constricted neck and flaring rim 

 around which is a series of notches. A rude 

 meander decoration surrounds the body. One 

 of four feet is lost through a basal perforation. 



In debris was part of a smoking pipe of 

 earthenware of the platform, or "Monitor," type. 



A curious fragment of earthenware lay 

 alone in the sand. The decoration is partly- 

 incised and partly made with a crescentic point. 

 Two and five-tenths inches are of solid ware ; 

 above seems to be the beginning of the base of 

 a cup (Fig. 162). 



In fallen sand in the SSE. slope of the 

 mound was a globular vessel of about 1 quart 



' Kindly identified by Prof. F. A. Lucas of the U. S. National Mu.seum 



Fl(i. 161. — Gorget made from the femur of 

 a bison. Mound A. Pierce mounds, 

 near Apalachicola. (Full size.) 



29 JOUEN. A. N. S. PHILA., VOL. XII. 



