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eye are Floridian ceramic features, while the coloring and the general shape are 

 more typically western. The head has been broken, no doubt, from the rim of a 

 bowl which was probably a handsome specimen of southern ceramic art. The frag- 

 ment shown in Fig. 5, is of the same style of ware and probably belonged to the 

 same or to a similar bowl. Fig. 6, represents a rudely modeled bird's head broken 

 from the rim of a bowl on which it Avas placed to face inward. It belongs to the 

 same general type as the preceding. 



Figs. 1 i and 14. Pottery of tine paste from the shell heap. 

 Thursby Sand Mound. — From the Thursby mound on the St. John's River 

 near Lake Beresford, Volusia Count}', Mr. Moore secured a unique collection of up- 

 wards of three hundred articles of clay comprising vessels and vessel-like objects, 

 animal figurines and vegetal and conventional forms. Nearly all are of the extem- 

 porized variety and extremely rude in execution. The clay was hastily thrown 

 into shape with the fingers almost without attempt at refinement of form or surface 

 finish. The rudeness and newness are so marked that at first I was inclined to 

 question their aboriginal origin and antiquity, but their manner of occurrence, as 

 described by Mr. Moore, their practical identity with other specimens found in as- 

 sociation with original burials in a number of mounds, and their relations techni- 

 cally with some of the ordinary varieties of earthenware seem to sufficiently estab- 

 lish their status as an integral part of the native art of Florida. They were con- 

 fined to a deposit occupying a considerable area on the side of the mound, but none 

 were at a greater depth than 12 inches beneath the surface. Nothing was found in 

 association with them, but a little higher on the mound at a corresponding depth 

 was an ornament of sheet gold and near this a similar object of sheet silver. In 

 another part of the mound and near the surface were found in association an iron 

 axe and a stone hatchet. This evidence together with that furnished by the shal- 

 lowness of burial and the fresh appearance of the articles furnish conclusive proof 

 of a comparatively recent origin. 



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