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symmetry. Restorations are given in Fig. 1. It is noticed that the clay was tem- 

 pered with some vegetable substance like pounded grass or palmetto fiber which has 

 entirely disappeared leaving the mass quite vesicular. A somewhat analogous effect 

 sometimes results from the burning out or decay of pulverized shell. The use of 

 shell was exceptional in the valley of St. John. In cases a coating of fine clajf 

 applied to the surface, a common device, has reduced the porosity of the walls. 



The ornamentation of this ware is generally of archaic type, consisting of in- 

 cised lines and indentations arranged in simple rudely executed patterns. The 

 specimens illustrated in Figs. 9 to 12 ( " Naturalist," July, 1893) convey an excel- 

 lent notion of the character of this pottery. 



Figs. 11 and 12. Fiber-tempered pottery with archaic decorations. 



The shapes, the treatment of the rims and some features of the decoration are 

 repeated in the prevailing Floridian wares, and one piece of excellent quality found 

 at a depth of seven feet is neatly incised and has the lip turned out at one point ; 

 and it therefore seems possible as already suggested that these shell-bank wares may 

 have been constructed on temporary resorts for purely culinary uses by peoples mak- 

 ing better pottery for other purposes elsewhere. The point could be determined b} 

 a detailed and extended study of the association, or lack of it, of these wares with 

 other varieties of pottery. 



Ginris Grove Mound. — The few pieces from this mound belong to the highest 

 type of Florida pottery, the variety which connects directly along the Gulf coast 

 to the lower Mississippi in an unbroken chain, the links of the chain varying some- 

 what with the regions. In Fig. 4, PL XV, we have illustrated a fragment, the head of 

 a bird, perhaps an eagle, well rounded and treated in a conventional yet remarkable 

 manner. The hooked bill is seen in profile, and the eye, modeled in low relief, is 

 surrounded by a peculiar figure colored white and outlined in a broad smoothly in- 

 cised line, the color of the head being red. The incised line of the outline is con- 

 tinued down the curved beak to indicate the mouth. The outlining in a smooth in- 

 cised line and the use of the angular indentations seen above and behind the 



