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the few vessels found whole, with the exception of the mortuary perforation, of 

 course, were, save one, undecorated and of inferior ware. This exception was a ves- 

 sel bearing a complicated stamp decoration about 2 inches wide, below the margin 

 (Fig. 168). A number of imperfect vessels and sherds also bore the complicated 

 stamp. One of these is shown in Fig. 169. 



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Fig. 168. — Vessel of eavtbenware. Jackson mound. 

 (Half size.) 



Fig. 169. — Shei'd. Jackson mound. (Half size.) 



Three vessels, separate, were found more centrally located in the mound, 

 though not immediately associated with burials, than was the general deposit of 

 earthenware which came to an end before interments were met with. One is an 

 undecorated vessel of about 1 pint capacity, of excellent ware, having the form of a 

 gourd. Part of the handle is broken and missing. Another (Fig. 170), with semi- 

 globular body with incised and punctate decoration, had two necks and two orifices, 

 where similar necks, which have since been restored, had been. The base is imper- 

 forate. Maximum diameter of body, 6.3 inches; height, with neck, 6.6 inches. 



The third vessel, an undecorated pot of about 1 pint capacity, has a certain 

 amount of bitumen which, melted at one time, has hardened on the base. This glue- 

 pot, of necessit}', has no basal perforation. We know bitumen to have been in com- 

 mon use among the aborigines, and Cabega de Vaca tells how he went to what is now 

 the Alabama frontier and acquired in trade various articles, including cement, 

 which was, doubtless, bitumen. 



Also in the E. and NE. parts of the mound and comparatively near the margin, 

 presumably deposited for the dead in general were : a soapstone pipe of the common 

 rectangular block pattern and fourteen hatchets, or "celts", ranging in length 



