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



were met with. On the center of the base of the mound, 6 feet down, was the 

 only skeleton found, being the bones of an adolescent lying at length to the knees, 

 with the lower legs flexed under. 



With the exception of a thick sheet of mica below this skeleton, no artifacts 

 were met with in the mound in direct association with the dead. Two arrowheads 

 were loose in the sand, as was a ball of galena, about 2 inches in diameter. There 

 was present, also, a part of a small disc of copper, or of brass, too minute and 

 too corroded for determination. 



While no tributes were placed immediately with burials, yet, as we have 

 seen to be the case elsewhere, there was in this mound a large deposit of 

 earthenware, marginal in the main, placed generally. 



In the N. E. part of the mound, not far from the margin, where the mound 

 was a trifle over two feet in height, was sand much darker than the rest, though 

 not so markedly in contrast as was the black loam in the marginal part of the 

 mound near Basin Bayou. In this sand in the Point Washington mound, in close 

 association, in contact even or, at times, one placed partly within another, were 

 ten vessels of from one pint to two quarts capacity, approximately, the under 

 ones lying on the base of the mound. A short distance away were five additional 

 vessels while, a little further in, lay a number of others. In all, thirty-eight ves- 

 sels of earthenware came from the mound, all, save two, from or from the vicinity 

 of, the place we have noted. Of the two exceptions, one was from the margin, 

 but several yards distant from the rest, while the other fell with caving sand from 

 near the surface. This vessel was imperforate as to the base and was the only 

 one met with by us in the mound clearly without mortuary mutilation, though 

 several were too fragmentary for determination. 



One of the groups of vessels lay with their bases resting upon great frag- 

 ments of much larger vessels, as on a floor. 



In two cases vessels whose bodies tapered to the base, had the base entirely 

 knocked away instead of perforated simply. In one case, the base was found 

 later, some distance from the vessel to which it belonged. 



Of the thirty-eight vessels found by us none exceeded two quarts in capacity, 



and in none was admixture of powdered 

 shell apparent. The paste, yellow, as a 

 rule, ranged from inferior to most excel- 

 lent quality, resembling the ware of pen- 

 insular Florida. Many were underra- 

 ted ; others offered no novelty in shape 

 or ornamentation, while others, again, 

 were crushed to fragments. We shall, 

 therefore, confine ourselves in descrip- 

 tion to vessels worthy of especial notice. 

 Vessel No. 1. — This vessel, of ex- 

 cellent ware, was found in a number of 

 pieces and without a base. The design 

 is incised (Fig. 62). 



Fig. 62.— Vessel No. 1. Mouud n 



(Half size.) 



