CERTAIN RIVER MOUNDS OF DUVAL COUNTY, FLORIDA. 491 



{Unio Jayamis. Lea), pierced through the impression of the anterior adductor 

 muscle, to enable them to be worn strung as a necklace. These large shells with 

 the nacreous portion in evidence, must have made an effective showing. In addi- 

 tion, were portions of columella? of marine univalves and a vessel of earthenware. 

 This vessel, 12.2 inches in height, has a maximum diameter of 8 inches. It is 

 centrally constricted and decorated and has decoration below the margin. It is 

 imperforate as to the base and absolutely intact, and is by far the finest specimen 

 of earthenware recovered by us from any Florida mound. Considerable soot 

 remaining upon it shows it to have been in actual use (Plate LXXVI). 



With a small earthenware pot was a graceful ovoid vessel of good material, 

 handsomely decorated beneath the rim (Plate LXXVII). Its height is 7.2 inches; 

 its maximum diameter, 5 inches. Considerable soot still remains upon it, showing- 

 culinary use for so ornamental a vessel. A portion of the rim and body is wanting 

 through a fracture previous to inhumation as the missing portions were not present 

 with the remainder of the vessel. Below the line of the fracture is a perforation 

 with a semi-perforation a short distance away. It is evident that the intention 

 was, by boring holes in the broken portion, to attach it to the remainder, a purpose 

 for some reason abandoned. 



A small bowl with two compartments, somewhat crushed, of a type already- 

 noticed by us, la}^ about 1 foot down with many fragments of various vessels. It 

 has been entirely restored. Length, 5.1 inches; width, 3 inches; height, 1.3 

 inches. 



In the northern slope, 5 feet down, were two vessels together, unaccompanied 

 by skeletal remains. One, a bowl of ordinary type but of good material, holding 

 about three quarts, has traces of red pigment inside and out. The rim projects. 

 It is imperforate as to base and otherwise intact with the exception of several cracks 

 produced b} T pressure. 



The other, gourd-shape, of yellow ware, absolutely intact save a slight chip- 

 ping at the mouth, lay on its side. It is unornamented save for traces of red 

 pigment. Height, 9.6 inches; maximum diameter, 7.7 inches; diameter of aper- 

 ture, 2 inches (Plate LXXVIII). About 1 foot above these vessels was a layer of 

 charcoal nearly 4 feet in length. 



About 1 foot below the surface, with fragments of various vessels, was a vessel 

 with two compartments, and a handle somewhat resembling a third, though much 

 shallower. Small holes had been broken through the bottom of each compartment. 

 In Plate LXXIX, Fig. 1, the vessel is shown, the handle to the front. Length 

 across compartments, 6 inches; across handle and partition, 5.1 inches; height, 

 1.5 inches. 



About 2.5 feet below the surface, with a mass of crimson pigment about the 

 size of a cocoanut, and apparently not in proximity to human remains, were : 

 sheets of mica ; two pebble hammers ; two chips of chert ; a bit of clayey substance 

 about the size of a chestnut ; the head of a shell pin with shank missing through 



