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vessel with four rudimentary feet. The decoration is an incised representation of 

 animal paws. Diameter at opening 3.6 inches ; height, 2 inches (Fig. 1). 



Burial No. 21.— Over the skull of a 

 child, with which were four large shell 

 beads, was an inverted bowl broken into 

 many pieces. This bowl, since put together, 

 is 11.25 inches in maximum diameter and 

 4.25 inches in depth. It has no basal per- 

 foration. The decoration, incised, Profes- 

 sor Holmes tells us, consists of a conven- 

 tionalized animal head showing the eye 

 and teeth. On either side are other parts 

 of the animal's body highly conventional- 

 ized (Fig. 2). This symbolism on earthenware, which reached its greatest extent 

 along the Gulf coast, will be treated exhaustively by Professor Holmes in his forth- 

 coming work, to which we have already referred. 



—Vessel with Burial No. 20. Mound at Bear 

 Point, (Two-thirds size.) 



Fig. 2.— Vessel with Burial No. 21. Mound at Bear Point. (Half size.) 



Burial No. 22. — A skull with a few long-bones. With the bones was a beauti- 

 ful bottle of smooth black ware, with a globular body incised in an interesting way 

 over every portion. A white substance, placed in the lines, greatly emphasizes 

 them. The neck of this bottle is missing through an early fracture. Maximum 

 diameter, 3.25 inches. Near the vessel lay an iron nail. 



Burial No. 23. — Part of a dish of smooth black ware with the remainder 

 probably cut away by recent digging. Beneath were disturbed bones. 



Burial No. 24. — Certain long-bones without a skull. An arrowpoint lay with 

 them. 



Burial No. 25. — Part of a dish of black ware well smoothed, with an incised 

 line encircling the interior below the margin. Recent digging had removed a con- 



