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vessel contained a number of marine bivalves which Mr. H. A. Pilsbry, of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, has identified as Callista gigantea. 



Burial No. 32. — Certain bones of an infant and twenty-two large shell beads. 



Burial No. 34. — Inverted and covering an adult skull with a few vertebrae, 

 was a badly crushed bowl of black ware having incised decoration much similar to 

 that on Vessel No. 31 (Fig. 28) from the mound at Walton's Camp. This bowl, 

 which has been sent to the Museum of Natural History, New York City, is 17 

 inches in maximum diameter and 7 inches deep. A perforation had been made 

 through the base. 



In preceding Reports we have described the custom obtaining, mainly in 

 peninsular Florida, to perforate the base of vessels put with the dead in order 

 to "kill" the pot, it is believed, to free its soul to accompany that of the departed. 

 We have described also, how, to a limited extent, this custom was noticed by us in 

 the case of burial urns up the Alabama river and along the Georgia coast. We 

 shall see in this Report how largely this basal perforation was practised along the 

 northwest coast of Florida. 



Burial No. 35. — The skull of an adult with part of a bowl lying to one side. 

 A former digging had seemingly carried away the other part. 



Burial No. 36. — Inverted and lying over a child's skull crushed flat, was a 

 small, circular dish of black ware very badly broken. There is a certain amount of 

 incised decoration on the inner surface. The base has a perforation. This bowl 

 was sent to the Peabody Museum. 



Burial No. 37. — The skull of a young adult was covered by an inverted bowl 

 badly crushed, having an incised decoration much like the design shown on Vessel 

 No. 41 (Fig. 35) from the mound at Walton's Camp. This bowl has been sent to 

 the Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass. 



With the skull were : two shell ear-plugs ; two iron nails ; a section of shell 

 somewhat worked ; a quartz pebble ; three bits of chert ; an imperforate vase of 

 black ware with incised decoration, lying on its side, 5.5 inches in maximum 

 diameter of body and 4.25 inches in height (Fig. 4). 



Burial No. 38. — Over the skull of an adolescent lay a bowl of brown ware 

 having the body encircled by two incised lines below the margin. One handle 

 which had stood upright above the rim, and was probably the head of a bird or of a 

 quadruped, is missing. The other handle, semi-oval in shape, extends at right 

 angles from the opposite side of the bowl. There is a basal perforation. This 

 bowl has been sent to the Museum of Natural History, New York City. 



Burial No. 39. — Two skulls, one of an adult, the other of a child, and a bit of 

 femur were covered by a bowl with base-perforation, 13.25 inches in maximum 

 diameter, 6.5 inches in height (Fig. 5). The decoration, incised, consists of a 

 series of the figures shown in the half-tone reproduction. Professor Holmes 

 believes the central one to be a conventional animal head with conventionalized 

 parts of the body on either side. 



Burial No. 40. — A pit running from the surface to the base of the mound, 



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