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



The head of an owl, a handle on a vessel, is shown in Fig. 116. The 

 ware is most excellent and there is decoration with red paint. 



Fig. 117 gives a large frog's head. 



In Figs. 118, 119, we have two views of a 

 part of a vessel which has had the head of a bird 

 projecting upward and wings extending horizon- 

 tally as handles. 



A human head belonging to a bowl is shown 

 in Fig. 120. This head is hollow and small objects 

 within rattle when shaken. Fig. 121 represents 

 a fragment of a vessel having for a handle the 

 head of a serpent. To the reader's left may be 

 seen a place on the vessel from which another 

 head, presumably that of a serpent also, has dis- 

 appeared. To one familiar with the markings on 

 a Florida rattlesnake, the diamond-shaped design on the vessel must be highly 



Fig. 116.— Sherd. Gem 

 Washington. (On< 



Fig. 117.— Sherd. Cemetery near Point Washington. (About two-thirds size.) 



Fig. 118.— Sherd. Cemetery near Point Washington. 

 (Half size.) 



Fig. 119.— Same. Another 

 (Half size.) 



