268 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS OF THE NW. FLORIDA COAST. 



Fig. 229. — Vessel No. 57. Decoration. Tucker mound. (Half size.) 



the closely flexed skeleton, the bunch, the lone skull, scattered bones, and skeletons 

 forced mto small graves, showing partial flexion at times and, again, disarranged 

 bones with the skull above. There were also bones in caved sand, whose form of 

 burial was not determined, in two or three cases. Though no skulls were saved 

 from this mound, a number were in a condition to allow determination as to cranial 

 flattening. There was no evidence that it had been practised. 



Around tlie great majority of burials were large clam-shells with sometimes a 

 mingling of conchs [Fulgiir perverswm). 



Proportionately, the greatest number of burials were marginal, in graves, and 

 Avith these burials were the most interesting objects in the mound. 



With Burial No. 2, a bunch, was a "celt" with a cutting edge 3.5 inches across, 

 while the opposite end tapered gracefully to a blunt point scarcely 1 inch in 

 diameter. 



Three other " celts " lay with burials and a small one with a pendant came 

 from a grave where no bones were found though, presumably, lapse of time in wet 

 sand below the base of the mound may account for their absence. 



With Burial No. 3, a bunch, were : a canine of a large carnivore ; two sheets of 

 mica, roughly shaped to resemble lanceheads ; a clam-shell showing wear. A 

 number of such clam-shells with part of the side removed, some with a cutting edge, 

 were met with in this mound. 



Burial No. 5, a bunch, had a triangular pebble about 5 inches long, with the 

 greater end showing much use as a hammer. 



