CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS, APALACHICOLA RIVER. 445 



Thirteen or fourteen vessels, mostly pots, some badly crushed, lay in contact 

 one with another. 



In cases where the condition of the vessel allowed determination, the hole 

 knocked in the base to " kill " the pot was found to be present. 



But two vessels merit particular description. 



Vessel No. 2. — A vessel of about three pints' capacity, of elliptical section, 

 with a projection on two opposite sides, perhaps a conventional head and tail, un- 

 decorated, save for crimson pigment on the exterior. 



Vessel No. 5. — This vessel, found in fragments and since cemented together, 

 with restoration of certain missing parts, including where the tail should be, has 

 for handle the head of a wood-duck (Fig. 93). Upon the vessel is a certain amount 

 of crimson pigment. The base has the usual mortuary mutilation made after the 

 baking of the clay. 



Mound near Isabel Landing, Chipola River, Calhoun County. 



This mound, about 100 yards west of the landing, on property of Mr. L. M, 

 Ware, of St. Andrews, Florida, had been literally hone^'-combed by holes and 

 trenches. At the time it was dug down by us, with the exception of parts around 

 certain trees, it had a height of 4 feet 7 inches ; a basal diameter of 48 feet. 



Though much of the mound still remained intact, especially the lower portion, 

 human remains were found by us but twice : a single skull badly decayed, 3 feet 

 down in the SE. part of the mound ; a few bones, probably disturbed by a former 

 trench. 



In the eastern part of the mound, near the margin, were a few undecorated 

 sherds and several with the small check-stamp. Farther, in the same direction, 

 here and there, stopping short of the center, were five or six vessels of ordinary 

 type and inferior ware, undecorated, several with parts missing. Among these was 

 a pot with a complicated stamp decoration consisting of squares made up of parallel 

 lines, a pattern found by us on the northwest coast. This vessel had two perfora- 

 tions, one on either side of an early fracture, to permit a cord or sinew to bind the 

 parts together. 



All vessels in this mound, of which sufficient remained to allow a determina- 

 tion, had the mortuary perforation knocked through after baking. 



There were also in the mound : a sherd with the complicated stamp ; one with 

 rude punctate decoration ; mica ; a flake of chert ; a quartz pebble. 



Mound near Chipola Cut-off, Calhoun County. 



The Apalachicola and Chipola rivers, some miles above their junction, are 

 united by a sort of canal which is called the Chipola Cut-off. 



In a swamp, about 40 yards from the bank, on the northern side, near the 

 eastern end of the cut-off, was a mound on property- under control of Mr. F. B. 

 Bell, of Wewahitchka, Florida. Between the mound and the water is a considei-- 

 able excavation whence the material for the mound was taken. 



