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surface layers were filled with sherds disseminated as if forming a part of the 

 material used in building the mound. 



Three small vessels were found near the head of a child's skeleton and aside 

 from these and two other pieces, one of which was perforated, the pottery deposited 

 with the dead was in fragments and, from the fact that few pieces were found that 

 could be joined together, would seem to have been fragmentary when deposited. 

 The occurrence of fragments modified in shape before consignment with the dead 

 would seem to indicate that their employment was probably not, exclusively at 

 least, as representatives of the actual vessels ordinarily used in burial, but intended 

 to subserve some other superstitious end. Some of these pieces were broken into 

 rude triangular shapes and many are so proportioned as to suggest the shape of a 

 spear or arrow point, as seen in Fig. 7. The practice of substituting imitation or 



Fig. 7. Sherds broken to resemble projectile points in outline. 



representative articles for real tools and utensils as suggested b}' Mr. Moore, appears 

 to have been common in the Florida region, but was not generally in vogue with the 

 natives of the United States. The construction of vessels perforated when made 

 is sufficient indication of the existence of the idea of substitution, and the use of 

 mere fragments could, it seems, readily follow, but the shaping of the pieces to imi- 

 tate arrow heads would indicate the existence of ideas of which we have secured 

 no fully satisfactory understanding. 



Among the fragments are portions of well made vessels of the prevailing 

 later Floridian types. One specimen from the base of the mound, shown in Fig. 1, 

 PI. XV, appears to have formed part of a bowl or ladle modeled in imitation of a 

 conch-shell The workmanship is neat and the surface well polished. Fig. 

 3, represents part of the lip or rim of a deep bowl about which a scalloped collar in 

 low relief had been modeled and a like fragment is illustrated in an article by Mr. 

 Moore published in the "Naturalist" for July, 1892 (Fig. 1, p. 576). 



