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terior having been well rubbed down. A row of incised triangular figures filled in 

 with indentations is carried around the rim. The piece was found at a depth of 

 13? feet and is partially reddened with the oxide of iron in which it was enveloped. 



The occurrence of typical specimens of the stamped ware with original burials 

 throughout this mound is a fact worth y of especial notice, for it is a ware widely 

 distributed in Florida and southern Georgia, characterizing in all probability the art 

 of the people found in possession of the region by the Spanish. 



Among the sherds of ordinary stamped ware from this locality, but not indi- 

 cated as coming from the mound, are some bits of heavy, silicious, gritty ware 

 marked with textile surfaces or indentings resembling fabric imprints, and a few bits 

 seem to be cord marked. This ware has analogies with the Algonkian pottery of 

 the middle Atlantic region, but the paste is not unlike that frequently seen in t} T pi- 

 cal Appalachian and Floridian wares. 



Mound in P/ne-zvoods, Blue Creek. — This mound contained a number of unique 

 pieces belonging mostly to the rude extemporized variety and having the appear- 

 ance, as in other cases, of hurried work by unskilled hands. The paste is dark 

 within and light gray without, and the finish was left to the unaided fingers or re- 

 ceived a very hurried rubbing with the polishing tool. 



A few small fragments of the ordinary square-pitted stamped ware, probably 

 from the surface, are in the collection and one vase represented by considerable frag- 

 ments belongs to the cruder incised pottery ; there is an appearance of carelessness 

 in the work, and another cup of the same ware is so rudely made and finished as to 

 apparently connect the makers of the better finished vessels definitely with the 

 fabricators of the extemporized toy-like articles. The vase of cruder incised ware 

 referred to above is somewhat pot-shaped with wide long neck and base approaching 

 the conical shape, and the rim was supplied with two tongue-like projections as 

 seen in the plate. The diameter is about six inches and the height nearly the same. 

 The Avails are thin and moderately smooth and the color is brown with traces of red 

 paint. The decorative design is rather elaborate, covering a large part of the vessel, 

 and consists of figures of unusual shape executed in incised lines and small deep in- 

 dentations. It is illustrated full size in PI. XL A fragment showing somewhat 

 similar treatment is given in Fig. 3, PI. IX. 



The extemporized ware comprises several vessel-like articles and unique shapes 

 and two examples of animal figurines, all hastily constructed of ordinary clay and 

 slightly baked. Two rude clipper or ladle-like cups are given in Fig. 2, PL VIII, 

 and Fig. 1, PL IX. Fig. 4, PI. VIII illustrates, three-quarter actual size, a rudely 

 made article resembling somewhat in outline a druggist's iron mortar. It is solid 

 with the exception of a rude perforation. A projecting part of undetermined shape 

 has been broken away from the top. Any attempt to assign this object to a definite 

 use is vain for so far as we can see it is a mere work of fancy. The same may be 

 said of several other })ieces, two of which appear in Fig. 1, PL VIII, and Fig. 2, PL 

 IX. The former, a rude scalloped cup finished with an ordinary hatched stamp, 

 came from a mound about two miles distant. The animal figures consist of the un- 



