376 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL IVIOUNDS, CENTRAL FLORIDA W.-COAST. 



At the extreme margin of the northeast part of the mound, with a burial, were 

 two vessels of earthenware, both of which have the mortuary perforation, with this 

 difference that, instead of the usual knocking out of part of the base, or of all of it, 

 a carefully rounded hole is present as though, after a piece had been broken out, the 

 edges had been worked to give a symmetrical outline. 



One of these vessels had four roughly circular compartments around a larger 

 circular one on a higher plane, almost exactly as shown in Fig. 268 of our second 

 part of the report on the mounds of the northwest Florida coast. The vessel from 

 the Gigger Point mound is covered with crimson pigment on the inside and on the 

 upper half inch of the outer portion. The central compartment alone has the basal 

 perforation. 



The other vessel (Fig. 14), an oblate spheroid of about one gallon capacity, has 

 a rather striking decoration consisting of seven encircling rows of wedge-shaped 

 impressions between the rim and a circular band in relief 



There Avere in the mound, also, here and there, a moderate number of sherds, 

 including one example of the small check-stamp, three or four of the complicated 



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Fig. 14. — Vessel of earthenware. Mound near Gigger Point. (About two-tliirds size.) 



