CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS, CENTRAL FLORIDA W.-COAST. 421 



highly conventionalized head, tail and legs of a life-form. The decoration, traced 

 on the clay before firing, is rude (diagram, Fig. 73). In the base is a carefully 

 rounded perforation made after baking, as Avas the case with all vessels in this 

 mound, except such as are described to the contrary. 



With this vessel, in fragments which have since been put together, was Vessel 

 No. 2, of excellent ware (Fig. 74), with incised and punctate decoration shown 

 diagrammatically in Fig. 75. There are duck-head handles. 



Fig. 75. — Vessel No. 2. Decoration. Mound near Bayport. (Half size.) 



Somewhat farther in, still in the eastern part of the mound, unfortunately 

 shattered by the blow of a spade, was a vessel, an inverted, truncated cone in shape, 

 with a check-stamp decoration. This vessel was too badly broken to determine as 

 to basal perforation. 



A little later, in the same direction, an undecorated, globular vessel was met 

 with. 



