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heads which have served as handles for earthenware. Mr. Walker failed to find 

 the deposit of earthenware in the great mound at Walton's Camp. 



Professor Holmes informs us that an interesting collection of earthenware was 

 taken from the mound at Bear Point, Perdido bay, by Mr. Parsons, then of the 

 Coast Survey, and we are indebted to Professor Holmes for a series of illustrations 

 of these vessels which resemble those found by us, and which will form a plate in 

 Professor Holmes' forthcoming report on aboriginal earthenware of the United 

 States, to be published by the Bureau of Ethnology. 1 



In the Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, 1875, page 282, et seq., G. M. Sternberg, Surgeon, U. S. A., publishes an 

 account of " Indian Burial Mounds and Shellheaps near Pensacola, Florida, Bay." 

 The author describes his explorations in the Bear Point Mound and in the mound 

 at Walton's Camp, Santa Rosa sound, where he, also, we note, missed the great 

 deposit of earthenware. 



The student of the archaeology of this part of the Florida coast is doubtless 

 familiar with " The Narrative of Alvar Nunez Cabeca de Vaca," 2 who landed at 

 Tampa in 1527 with part of an ill-fated expedition, and who spent six years (1528- 

 1533) as a prisoner among the aborigines of the northwest Florida coast, living at 

 places where explorations treated of in this volume were carried on, on Santa Rosa 

 Island (Malhado Island) and near Pensacola bay. The inhabitants of this section 

 are described as poor. We are told (p. 50) " for three months in the year they eat 

 nothing else than these [oysters] and drink very bad water. There is great want 

 of wood, and mosquitoes are in very great numbers. The houses are of mats, set 

 up on masses of oyster shells, which they sleep upon, and in skins, should they 

 accidentally possess them." Nevertheless, these coast aborigines were possessed of 

 earthenware. " Before their houses were many clay pitchers of water," we are 

 told (page 35). 



Dr. M. G. Miller, who has accompanied us in all our mound work, determined, 

 as to human remains, this season, as before, and aided in our work generally and in 

 putting this Report through the press. 



1 We would call the attention of any reader wishing a more thorough acquaintance with the 

 aboriginal ware of this country to : 



" Pottery of the Ancient Pueblos." 



" Ancient Pottery of the Mississippi Valley." 



" Origin and Development of Form and Ornament in Ceramic Art." 



All by Professor Holmes and all in the Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 

 1882-1883; and in the same volume "A Study of Pueblo Pottery as Illustrative of Zuni Culture 

 Growth," by Frank Hamilton Cushing. 



" Archaeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895," by Jesse Walter Fewkes. Seventeenth 

 Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1895-1896. 



"Illustrated Catalogue," etc., by William H. Holmes. Third Annual Report of the Bureau 

 of Ethnology, 1881-1882. 



"Contributions to the Archaeology of Missouri, Part I, Pottery," by the Archaeological Section 

 of the St. Louis Academy of Sciences. 



"Antiquities of Tennessee," by Gates P. Thruston. 



Various Reports on Antiquities of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama, by Clarence 

 B. Moore. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Volumes X and XI. 



2 English translation by Buckingham Smith. Privately printed, Washington, 1851. 



