CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS, APALACHICOLA RIVER. 487 



face, while those on the vessel from this mound seem to owe their origin to a cir- 

 cular object with a slight, rough projection at the center. 



Vessel No. 11.— Twenty-one feet in from the eastern margin of the mound the 

 black sand ended and no earthenware of any sort was met with in the mound after- 

 ward, with the exception of an unassociated vessel in the southern portion, having 

 an' ovoid body with upright rim flaring, then constricted. There is a rather rough° 

 complicated stamp-decoration. This vessel has no basal perforation (Fig. 151). 



Several bird-head handles lay unassociated in the sand. One has a j^erforation 

 apparently cut after the baking of the clay (Fig. 152). Another (Fig. 153), large 

 and hollow, has red pigment around the eyes. 



In Fig. 154 is given a selection of sherds from this mound. As might be ex- 

 pected, since the territory in which the mound was is near Georgia, the complicated 

 stamp is largely represented. One, on the left of the second row, did not come 

 from the mound, but from the surface nearbv. 



Fig. 151.— Vessel Xo. 11. Moiiud uear Aspalaga. (.\bout four-fifths size.) 



