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sides, is but .8 of an inch in diameter. The decoration, incised and punctate, with 

 light-colored material inset, consists of a rudely executed design, evidently symboli- 

 cal, four times repeated (Fig. 237). Height, 4.2 inches; maximum diameter, 4.5 

 inches. 



Vessel No. 62. — A vessel of inferior ware, with four feet. The decoration 

 seemingly is cord-marked (Fig. 238). 



Vessel No. 67. — The most carefully decorated vessel in the mound, with tiat 

 base on which the decoration on the body is continued. A part of the bod}^ and 

 neck, missing when found, has been restored (Fig. 239). 



A sherd from this mound is shown in Fig. 240. 



Mound on Marsh Island, Wakulla County. 



Marsh Island is the northeastern boundary of Ocklockonee bay. The mound 

 was in full sight of the water about 100 yards distant, on property of the Rayker 

 family of Crawford ville, Fla. The usual deep excavations near the mound were 

 l^resent and extensive shell deposits were in the neighborhood. 



The mound, which gave little evidence of previous digging, oblong with 

 rounded corners, was 96 feet through the base in an easterly and westerly direction, 

 68 feet in a northerly and southerly, and had a height of 7 feet. The mound was 

 entirely demolished by us. 



Human remains were present at 106 points and their discovery began at the 

 very margin of different parts of the mound. Many burials lay in the eastern 

 portion, but interments in graves below the base were much more numerous on the 

 western side. But few burials were met with in the northern and southern parts of 

 the mound. 



There were twenty-five lone skulls, some in little graves of their own below the 

 base, and, in two instances, two skulls lay together without other bones. The flexed 

 burial was met with in twenty-eight instances and the bunch was present forty-four 

 times, counting under this heading masses of bones indiscriminately mixed, includ- 

 ing numbers of skulls. There were also several disturbances of remains, jDrobably 

 aboriginal, and cases where bones fell in caved sand before the form of burial was 

 determined. There was also one urn burial. 



The question of cranial flattening in this mound will be discussed later. 



Thirteen burials lay under oyster-shells sometimes few in number, sometimes 

 in a solid mass. Noteworthy burials, including all associated with artifacts, were as 

 follows : 



Burial No. 20 — A lone skull had with it a graceful "celt." 



Burial No. 24 had a bit of chert in association. 



Burial No. 37, a flexed skeleton, lay in a grave below the base. With it was a 

 mass of i^lumbago, deeply pitted. 



Burial No. 38. — A lone skull lay Avith a "celt." 



Burial No. 51, in a grave beneath oyster-shells, consisted of three flexed skele- 

 tons, two on the same level, one somewhat above. With them was the knucklebone 

 of a deer. 



