472 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS, APALACHICOLA RIVER. 



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Fig. 135. — Section of ceremonial mouud. Mound in Davis' Field. 



Fig. 13S. 



-Vessel No. 15. Mouud in D.ivis' Field. 

 (About half size.) 



it. This vessel, found in fragments, 

 has been cemented together. The 

 bill, unfortunately, is missing. An 

 incised decoration on the body of the 

 bird has become faint through the infe- 

 riority of the ware. 



Seven feet farther in, in the same 

 direction, -was a most interesting cere- 

 monial deposit. A jDit 6 inches in 

 depth and 3 feet 6 inches in diameter 

 had been dug below the base of the 

 mound. On the bottom of this pit lay 

 charcoal where, evidently, a fire had 

 been. Rising above this pit 1.5 feet 

 from its base was a mound composed 

 of clay blackened with fragments of 

 charcoal. This mound was much 

 spread at its base, where it was 7 feet 

 in diameter (see section. Fig. 135). 

 The main body of the mound rose 

 from the center of the basal portion. 

 From the top of this mound of black- 

 ened clay to the surface of the mound 

 proper was 3 feet 6 inches. On the 

 apex of this small, ceremonial mound 

 were three vessels, two being visible 

 when the mound was come upon from 

 the eastward, as is shown in the sec- 

 tion. These vessels, which fell into 

 fragments when removed, were bowls 

 with thickened rims, covered with 

 crimson pigment, inside and out. One 



