462 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS, APALACHICOLA RIVER. 



ingly tempered with pounded shell, in every way resembling a type found much 

 farther to the westward. 



Vessel No. 38. — A vessel of heavy ware, lenticular in section, undecorated save 

 for one encircling, incised line below the rim. 



Vessel No. 41. — A pot with complicated stamp-decoration (Fig. 120). 



Vessel No. 42. — A small bowl with a complicated stamp faintly impressed. 



Vessel No. 47. — A jar with a complicated stamp-decoration around the neck. 



Vessel No. 49. — A vessel Avith incised decoration of a pattern frequently 

 encountered in this mound (Fig. 121). 



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Fig. 120.— Vessel No. 41. Mouuii near Chipola Cut-off. (Five-sixths size.) 



Among the masses of fragments in the margin of the mound were many large 

 portions of bowls, four of which are shown in Figs. 122, 123, 124, 125. 



In Fig. 126 is shown part of a bowl with the head of a fish in profile. 



In Fig. 127 is shown a part of a vessel with the neck divided into two parts 

 before joining the body, a type not met with by us before in Florida, but well-known 

 elsewhere, including Missouri, Tennessee and Peru. 



Many loop-shaped handles were present in the mound and a considerable num- 

 ber of handles representing heads of quadrupeds and of birds. A selection of these 

 is shown in Fig. 128. 



Three stopper-shaped objects of earthenware came from this mound, one wnth a 

 central depression in the top, and an encircling line of impressions made by a tri- 

 angular point, around the margin (Fig. 129). 



