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



inches by 15 inches in uiaxiraum diameter, 8.5 inches high, 6.5 inches by 7.5 inches 

 in diameters of aperture, with in-turned rim and rude, incised decoration shown in 

 Fig. 83. So stout was the ware that it resisted a number of blows of a spade, aimed 

 at neighboring palmetto roots. There is a rounded perforation in the base, made 

 after the completion of the vessel, and another in the side. 



Fig. 63.— Vessel No. 4. Mound near Pithlochascootier iver. (About half size.) 



On the base of the mound, as was the othei', and about 6 feet east of it, inver- 

 ted, with Burial No. 42, a skeleton closely flexed on the right side, was Vessel No. 

 5, a bowl of excellent yellow ware, 18 inches in diameter, 7.75 inches high and 13.8 

 inches across the opening. This vessel (Fig. 84) has red pigment interiorly and red 

 coloring matter within two of each of the four triangles which make up the oblong 

 spaces between the groups of parallel vertical lines of the decoration. With Burial 

 No. 42 was also a small pendant of sedimentary rock, having a conventional bird- 

 form, shown in two positions in Fig. 85, while a Avell-made pendant of metamorphic 

 rock (Fig. 86) lay with another burial. 



