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had bt'on made previous to the baking of the clay. Incidentally, we found this 

 " freak," or ceremonial, ware in the peninsula, from the mouth of the St. Johns river 

 U) Lake Beresford (see outline map), going southward, and in the lake district at the 

 head of the Ocklawaha river. 



A few examples of this ready-made "freak" ware were met with by us east of 

 Pensacola bay during our work last season. During this year's investigation, as our 

 readers may recall, e.xamples of this form were found in increasing numbers, and 

 individual vessels were often of much greater size than anything of the kind we had 

 met with to the westward on the coast, or, incidentally, in peninsular Florida, save 

 in the mounds of Volusia, south of Lake George. 



As our work progressed more to the east, a new feature in " freak " ware was 

 encountered. In the mounds of St. Andrew's bay two vessels of a new type, and 

 fragments of similar ones, were fonnd. while farther to the east vessels of this kind 

 were encountered in considerable numbers. These vessels were life-forms, usually, 

 but differed from other life-forms of the same district, in that they were inferior to 

 them as to ware and workmanship, and that they had various perforations made 

 previous to baking, in the body of the vessel as well as the customar\- one in the 

 base. ^ 



An interesting custom noted with but few exceptions along the northwest coast 

 was the placing in the mounds of general deposits of earthenware, nearly always in 

 the eastern part of the mound. These deposits were found in darkened sand, often 

 at the very edge of the mound, and continued with the blackened sand, a few 

 vessels together, in toward the center or to it. Sometimes the deposits were met 

 with at some little distance in from tlie margin, but nearl}- always in the eastern 

 side of the mound. 



These masses of blackened sand in which the general deposits of earthenware 

 lay were noticed by us in the mounds during our former season's work and were 

 referred to by us in Part I of our report. So almost universal was the juxtaposition 

 of darkened sand and general deposits of ware in the mounds, during our work this 

 season, that considerable thought was devoted by us to the matter. Sand of this 



' Among numbers of small "freak" vessels found by us in the Grant mound, near the mouth of 

 the St. Johns river, was part of a vessel filled with perforation.s, like a sieve. "We are uncertain whether 

 or not this vessel should be included in the same class as those having occasional perforations in the body. 



The incen.se-cups of Mexico and of Central A.merica, though they have perforations of the body, 

 made before baking, do not seem to us to be of the same class as these large vessels from northwest Florida, 

 which have basal perforations in addition to those in the body. These latter vessels with their ready- 

 made body- perforations would seem to be intimately connected with the ceremonial vessels of peninsular 

 Florida, since both classes possess the perforation of the base, made before the baking of the clay, thouj;h 

 the vessels of peninsular Florida do not show the body-perforations which are probably only an ampli- 

 fication of the mortuary perforation of the base. Therefore, as the ceremonial ves.sels of peninsular 

 Florida, being without body-perforations, could not have served as incense-burners, it is not likely that 

 the ceremonial vessels of northwest Florida, which are so nearly related to the others, though possessed 

 of body-perforations, were intended for the burning of iiicen.se. 



The Twentieth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology will consist of Prof. W. 

 H. Holmes', " The Pottery of the Eastern United States," a most admirable memoir, part of which it has 

 been our good fortune to see in manuscript. 



We earnestly advise those interested in the subject of aboriginal ware carefully to study this 

 memoir, on its appearance. 



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



