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Vessel No. 5. — A vessel probably representing a section of a gourd cut lon- 

 gitudinally. 



Vessel No. 6. — A bowl in fragments, with notches around the rim and four 

 very rude animal heads. 



Vessel No. 7. — A vessel badly crushed, having a broad band of complicated 

 stamp-decoration around the neck. 



Vessel No. 8. — A bowl of heavy ware, badly broken, covered with crimson 

 pigment, inside and out. 



Vessel No. 9. — A quadrilateral vessel with rounded corners and convex base, 

 having for decoration beneath the rim a broken line with an incised line below it. 



Among the sherds, the check-stamp was represented as was the complicated 

 stamp, one pattern of which is shown in Fig 91. 



Much ware bore incised and punctate decoration of familiar patterns. There 

 were found also a handle representing the head of a duck (Fig. 92) and a small 

 handle, a bird head in profile, having a perforation in place of eyes. 



Mound near Burgess Landing, Burgess Creek, Calhoun County. 



Chipola river is a tributary of the Apalachicola. 



Burgess creek enters the Chipola river on the west side, about eight miles up. 

 Burgess landing, on the west side of the creek, is about one mile above the junc- 

 tion of the creek with the river. The mound, on property of Mr. S. S. Alderman, 

 of Wewahitchka, Florida, was about 100 yards from the landing, in full view from 

 the road. 



The mound, much spread by previous digging here and there, had also a narrow 

 trench entirely through it in an eastwardly and westwardly direction. The height 

 of the mound at the time of our investigation, was 4 feet 9 inches ; its diameter, 

 48 feet. Trenches were run in from all sides, a distance of about 3 feet when it 

 became evident that the mound proper, with a diameter of 42 feet, had been reached. 

 The mound, of clayey sand, very tenacious in places, was entirely demolished by 

 us. with the exception of small portions around several trees. 



Human remains were not met with until the digging had advanced well into 

 the body of the mound, when, at different points, and especially, near the center, 

 fragments of single skulls and bits of long-bones were found. Once, fragments of 

 a skull lay with the remains of one radius and of one femur. In all, human re- 

 mains lay in twelve places, but so near together, at times, that some of these may 

 have belonged to the same burial. 



No artifacts lay with the bones, but scattered through the mound were : two 

 small " celts " of polished rock, at one place and one at another; four hones of fer- 

 ruginous sandstone ; mica, in two places ; a rude arrowhead of chert. 



All in the eastern side of the mound, beginning a certain distance in from the 

 margin, were deposits of sherds, often parts of a number of vessels together, and 

 entire vessels, broken and whole. Altogether about two dozen vessels were met 

 with, all of inferior ware, none showing anv novelty as to form or decoration. The 



