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tite, with lateral flattening 1*5 inches and # 9 of an inch in length, respectively, were 

 met with. 



A small bead of blue glass was found in the pink sand layer. 



Other relics were an implement of shell fashioned from the axis of a Fascio- 

 laria ; a copper hawk-bell, found superficially, covered with patine, still containing 

 the little ball which yielded a jingling sound when shaken. These hawk-bells, 

 used in falconry, were highly prized by the Indians who obtained them by barter 

 from the whites. 



POTTERY. 



Many fragments of pots, denoting vessels unusually large for the sand mounds, 

 were met with in Dunn's Creek mound. From surface to base were sherds, vary- 

 ing from the coiled pottery of coarse material to the most compact and finest pot- 

 tery of the mounds. Certain fragments from the base were colored a bright car- 

 mine, and ornamented with rims projecting laterally, over an inch in breadth. 

 Other fragmentary portions of vessels had a graceful treatment of curves, a style 

 of ornamentation usually wanting in the river mounds (Plate II, figs. 1 and 2). 

 Other sherds showed interesting patterns (Plate II, figs. 3 and 4) . Near the sur- 

 face, the usual stamped pottery was abundant. Neither in this mound nor in other 

 river mounds do we recall seeing an admixture of crushed shells with the clay. 



Owing to the great quantity of roots in the Dunn's Creek mound, often ren- 

 dering fruitless the most careful digging, we were so unfortunate as to lose several 

 pots by breakage. Besides a number of small bowls, undecorated, with the usual 

 hole knocked through the bottom, two bowls were found in association in the north- 

 eastern slope of the mound three feet from the surface, in the neighborhood of the 

 base. Both were perforated in the usual manner. One with a height of 3*5 

 inches and a maximum diameter of 4'75 inches, had the aperture contracted to a 

 diameter of 375 inches. The margin of the aperture was scalloped. Seven feet 

 from the surface, near the base, was a beautiful vase of unique design, imperforate, 

 with oval base, 4 "25 inches in height with a maximum diameter through the body 

 of 2 - 5 inches. The upper diameter, including the laterally projecting rim, was 

 4'75 inches (Plate III, fig. 1). We have met with nothing resembling this vase in 

 all our mound work on the St. John's. Unfortunately, a portion of the rim suffered 

 slight mutilation through contact with a spade, while on the other side a part was 

 missing through a former break. A small pot with scalloped rim, but otherwise 

 undecorated, broken, but not beyond restoration, was found during the investigation 

 (Plate III, fig. 2) . Another, somewhat larger but of the same pattern, was recov- 

 ered unbroken. But one entire vessel was met with in the upper or pink sand 

 layer. 



TOBACCO PIPES. 



Six feet below the surface, and twenty-five feet from the southern margin of 

 the base, with a certain amount of charcoal, in such immediate association that the 



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