480 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS, APALACHICOLA RIVER. 



made before the clay was " fired." Curiously enough, this ready-made mortuary 

 vessel has no basal perforation. 



Vessel No. 11. — A globular bowl of thick ware, decorated on the inside with 

 crimson pigment. The only part of the outer surface showing decoration is an up- 

 right rim about 1 inch in height. 



Vessel No. 13. — A bowl of yellow ware, shown in Fig. 142. A perforation 

 has been broken through the base. 



Vessel No. 14. — Has a complicated stamp decoration around the neck (Fig. 

 143). The usual hole has been knocked through the bottom. 



Vessel No. 16. — An ordinary shape having for decoration two incised, encir- 



FlG. 144.— Handle of eiiithenware vessel. Two positions. Mouiid at Bristol. (Full size.) 



cling lines just below the rim. This vessel, which has the ordinary basal perfora- 

 tion, was broken when placed in the mound, as one-half was found within the other 

 half, in a reversed position. 



Unassociated, was a bird-head handle decorated with crimson paint, having a 

 feature not before met with by us, consisting of an opening at the back of the head. 

 This head is shown, side view and back view, in Fig. 144. 



Mound near Atkins' Landing, Apalachicola River, Calhoun County. 



This mound, on the edge of the swamp, about one mile in a SE. direction from 

 the landing, on property of Mr. W. R. Shields, living nearby, had been riddled with 

 holes and seamed with trenches previous to our visit. Its height is 3 feet, its basal 

 diameter, 40 feet. 



Such parts of the mound as had been left intact yielded nothing to our inves- 

 tigation. 



