CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS, APALACHICOLA RIVER. 471 



Vessel No. 



—This vessel, of graceful form, but of inferior ware, as are practi- 

 cally all vessels in Florida, especiallj' made for interment with the dead, is a bird- 

 effigy of the ceremonial class, with a perforation in the base and others in the body, 

 all made before the baking of the clay (Fig. 134). In the body of the bird, but not 

 .shown in the figure, is a triangular hole above the tail and a small circular one below 



Fig. 134.— Vessel No. 3. Mound in Davis' Field. (About balf size.) 



