CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS, APALACHICOLA RIVER. 4 



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had, for a handle, a rude representation of a liead of a quadruped ; another, a phice 

 Avhere a head of some sort had been. One had had a hole knocked through the 

 base ; the others were too fragmentary to allow determination. 



One of these vessels, in addition to the crimson pigment of which we have 

 spoken, bore a complicated stamp-decoration, the first example of this combination 

 in all our mound work, we believe. 



On the sides of the small, ceremonial mound were large fragments of earthen- 

 ware and two shell drinking-cups, badly broken. 



Considerably nearer the center, but in the same line with the rest of the earth- 

 enware, were twelve jars, pots and bowls, all of ordinary type and all showing the 

 basal perforation, when not too badly broken. Some were undecorated ; some had 

 bands of complicated stamp-decoration ; one or two were covered with it. All but 

 two were badly broken, some being crushed into minute fragments. 



One vessel (No. 15), of eccentric form (Fig. 136), originally covered with red 

 pigment, inside and out, had about one-third, which included almost the entire 

 upper portion, missing. Certain fragments from this portion served as a sure indi- 

 cation for restoration. The usual hole knocked through the base is present. 



With the exception of the mortuary deposit running in from the eastern part 

 of the mound, not a sherd was met with, to our knowledge, in the entire mound. 



Yon Mound, Apalachicola River, Liberty Couxty. 



This fine mound, about two miles below Bristol, in full view from the river, on 

 property belonging to Hon. F. M. Yon, of Blountstown, Florida, is square in out- 

 line, with rounded corners at the present time. The basal diameter of the mound is 

 157 feet. The height depends much upon the side from which the mound is exam- 

 ined, as the surrounding country is irregular, probably 29 feet may be considered 

 the most accurate measurement. There is no graded way and the slope of the sides 

 is steep, as the mound, of hard clay, seems to have washed but little since its mak- 

 ing. Two determinations, not especially selected, gave angles of ascent of 38 

 degrees and 43 degrees, respectively. The diameter of the summit plateau is 

 68 feet. 



This mound gave every evidence of being domiciliary but, as we have some- 

 times found burials in the summit plateaux of domiciliary mounds,' many trenches 

 were dug in the plateau of the Yon mound, resulting in the discovery of one small 

 bunch of human remains, some fragments showing marks of fire. 



Mound below Bristol, Apalachicola River, Liberty County. 



This mound, in an old field, about one mile in a WSW. direction from Bristol, 

 on property belonging to Mr. Robert Shuler, of that place, was of sand, circular in 

 outline, with a basal diameter of 50 feet. Its height was 3 feet 5 inches. No pre- 

 vious digging was noticeable in this mound. 



' For example: the Shields' mound, near the mouth of the St. John's river, Florida; the mound 

 at ^Matthews' Landing, Alabama river; the mound on Perdido bay and the one on Santa Kosa sound, 

 Florida. 



60 JOUEN. A. N. S. PHILA., VOL. XII. 



