CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS OF THE N. W. FLORIDA COAST. 433 



Mound near Josephine Postoffice, Perdido Bay, Baldwin County, Ala. 



A small sand mound about three-quarters of a mile in a northerly direction 

 from the landing at Josephine Postoffice, in .pine-woods, was dug through by us 

 without result. The mound was doubtless the former site of a tepee. 



At Inerarity Point, on the Florida side of the bay (see map), are numerous 

 shell-fields and small shell-heaps. In addition to extended inquiries, careful search 

 failed to locate a burial mound at this place. 



Mound near Maester Creek, Blackwater Bay, Santa Rosa County, Fla. 



Blackwater bay is an extension of East bay, which is a part of Pensacola bay. 

 The mound, in sight of where Maester creek enters Blackwater bay, was dug 

 through by us by permission of Mr. Frank Berrian, agent, who resides nearby. 

 The mound, of sand, circular in outline, 3 feet high, 30 feet across the base, 

 unstratified, had been dug into in two places by treasure hunters. 



In addition to bones disturbed by former digging, and to burials of which 

 almost no trace was left, human remains were met with by us at sixteen points. 

 The form of burial included the bunch, the lone skull, and, in one place, a bunch 

 of long-bones without a skull. 



Beneath a cranium, together, were six cannon bones of the deer. Five were 

 broken or partly decayed. One showed an end cut off squarely and seemingly had 

 served as a handle of some sort. A lancepoint of chalcedony, 5.5 inches long, lay 

 loose in the sand, also an arrowpoint of the same material and one of quartzite. In 

 addition were a grooved hone and a small slab of red oxide of iron, showing a con- 

 cavity through use. A number of masses of bitumen, one about the size of a cocoa- 

 nut lay together. We have before referred to how Cabeca de Yaca made trading- 

 excursions from Charruco, an aboriginal settlement which cannot have been far 

 from this mound, over to the head of Perdido bay, and brought back, among other 

 things, ochre to be used as paint and cement which we know to have been bitumen, 

 in all probability. 



The earthenware in the mound consisted of five vessels, all deposited singly in 

 the extreme marginal western part of the mound between south and northwest. 

 They were unassociated. 



Vessel No. 1. — A perforate vase with semi-globular body, constricted neck and 

 rim slightly flaring. The decoration consists of roughly incised perpendicular lines 

 around the neck starting from a punctate circle about one-half inch below the rim. 

 Maximum diameter, 6.25 inches; height, 5 inches; diameter of opening, 4.5 inches. 



Vessel No. 2. — A bowl of excellent ware, semi-globular body, incurving toward 

 the aperture, and perforate base. The decoration consists of incised and punctate 

 markings (Fig. 11). Maximum diameter, 9 inches; depth, 5 inches; diameter of 

 opening, 6.2 inches. 



