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mound. Main- sherds bore the ever-present check-stamp ; the complicated stamp 

 was on one sherd only. Some had a decoration of crimson pigment ; others, incised 

 and punctate designs. A selection is shown in Fig. 87. The reader will note in 

 the right hand upper corner a sherd, handsomely decorated, where a portion of the 

 design is carried above the rim. One interesting sherd, of excellent ware, shows 

 the head of a bird with peculiarly shaped bill beneath which is a perforation which 

 may be one of two made for the suspension of the vessel, or a single hole to allow 

 the fragment to be worn as a pendant. 



Mound near Tarpon Springs, Hillsboko County. 



This mound is referred to, incidentally, as it belonged to those of the district 

 of which we are writing. 



The mound is described by Mr. S. T. Walker [pp. cit., page 394 et seq.) under 

 the heading of the Ormond mound on the Anclote river. Such digging as was done 

 by Mr. Walker, after members of Mr. Ormond's family had tried their hands at it, 

 yielded nothing of importance. 



In 1895, what remained of the mound was totally demolished by the late Mr. 

 Frank Hamilton Cushing, who reported' the discovery of many burials and also of 

 a pendant of crystal, a pendant of copper and many fragments of earthenware. 

 These fragments will be figured and described in Prof. W. H. Holmes' " The Pot- 

 tery of the Eastern United States," which will be published as the Twentieth 

 Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. 



Mound on Hog Island, Hillsboko County. 



Hog Island lies between part of St. Joseph sound and the Gulf 



The mound, on property of Mr. Henry Scherrer, living nearb}', is about one 

 mile in a northerly direction from the southern extremity of the island. It lies on 

 low ground which is entirely surrounded by water at high tide, and seems a curious 

 selection for a place of burial. 



The mound, composed of a mixture of sand and of small marine bivalves 

 ( Venus cancellatd), the same genus as our round clam, had been wofully dug into, 

 centrally, and from the sides, previous to our visit, when it was comjiletely demol- 

 ished by us, with the exception of parts surroimding two trees. 



Burials in this mound lay, as a rule, near the base and in graves below the 

 base. Many skeletons, we were told, had been removed by former diggers and man}- 

 others, remaining, showed great disturbance. 



Thirty-three skeletons were met with by us, buried as follows : 



Closely flexed on the right side, . . . . . 21 



Closely flexed on the left side, ..... 7 



Partly flexed on the right, ...... 1 



Closely flexed, face down, ...... 2 



Closely flexed on the back, ...... 1 



Disturbance hy our diggers, ...... 1 



' "Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society," Vol. XXXV, Xo. 153, Pliila., 1897. 

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