CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS, APALACHICOLA RIVER. 483 



The first whole vessel, a small bowl with in-turned rim, undecorated, was met 

 with 8 feet from the margin, somewhat north of east in the mound. This vessel 

 was followed by single ones, mostlj- pots, here and there, some a little more to the 

 eastward. Some of these were undecorated or had a faint complicated stamp; 

 several had feet ; and some, notches around the rim. Among these vessels were 

 fragments of others, also of inferior ware, showing the ready made basal perforation. 



Still farther in were a few vessels, or large parts of vessels, all badly crushed, 

 some of which, cemented together and restored in part, are included among vessels 

 particularly described. 



All these vessels and sherds lay in sand much darker than that of the re- 

 mainder of the mound, a feature so frequently noted among the mounds of the north- 

 west Florida coast. 



The more noteworthy vessels will now be described in detail. But one is with- 

 out the usual mortuary perforation. 



Vessel No. 2. — Part of a vase of yellow ware, with the upper portion missing 

 (Fig. 14 6). 



Fig. 146. — Vessel No. 2. Mound near Aspalaga. (Full size.) 



Vessel No. 4. — A diminutive pot, undecorated save for notches around the rim. 



Vessel No. 5. — Certain parts of a large, globular vessel of porous, inferior ware, 

 decorated on the outside with red pigment. The body has numerous perforations 

 made before the "firing'' of the clay. The base is missing. A large, red, bird- 

 head handle was found with this vessel, but the parts uniting it to the vessel were 

 not met with. 



Vessel No. 7. — A vase 10.5 inches high and 8.2-5 inches in maximum diameter 

 of body which is heart-shaped in longitudinal section. The neck is upright and 

 flaring, and has incised and punctate decoration with crimson pigment in places. 



