500 CERTAIN RIVER MOUNDS OF DUVAL COUNTY, FLORIDA. 



red pigment inside and out. A portion of the base is missing. Maximum diameter, 

 5.8 inches ; depth, 3.4 inches ; diameter of orifice, 3.6 inches (Plate LXXXI, Fig. 3). 



An interesting vase was recovered virtually intact. Its height is 9 inches ; 

 maximum diameter of body, 4 inches; diameter of aperture, 4.2 inches. The 

 imperforate base is flat with a diameter of about 1.75 inches. Interesting incised 

 and punctate decoration surrounds the rim to a depth of about 2.5 inches. On one 

 side are two perforations about 1.5 inches apart, nearly three inches below the rim. 

 Their use is not apparent (Plate LXXXII). 



One tobacco pipe of earthenware came from the mound. The type is the 

 same as that found in the neighboring mounds with the exception that, on the 

 part facing the smoker, two raised parallel lines, one at either side, run the entire 

 length of the pipe. 



The two remaining mounds at Alicia, each about the size of mound A, were 

 not investigated. 1 One had been utilized as a place of burial within recent years. 



Denton Mound. 



About one-half mile east of Chaseville, in thick undergrowth, was a ridge or 

 possibly three intersecting mounds of irregular shape, the largest to the east, two 

 smaller side by side to the west. The length of the ridge was 77 feet. The 

 eastern end was 40 feet across ; the western, 30 feet. The maximum height, 

 which was near the eastern extremity, was 2.5 feet. These low mounds were not 

 before supposed to be aboriginal remains, and had undergone no previous 

 investigation. 



They were completely dug through with the consent of the owner, James L. 

 Denton, Esq., of Jamaica, N. Y. 



The usual yellow sand and charcoal were present. 



Human remains were few and very fragmentary. 



Sherds were infrequently met with. One small bowl, undecorated, was broken 

 by contact with a spade. An undecorated globular vessel, perforated through the 

 base after completion, has a height of about 2.5 inches, and a diameter of 3.75 

 inches approximately. 



Three feet from the surface was a vessel of great interest, in numerous frag- 

 ments, crushed contemporary with or previous to inhumation and with certain 

 missing portions chipped off by use of a pointed tool. This vessel, of excellent 

 material and graceful design, with incised decoration of straight diagonal and of 

 curved lines, has on one side, the repousse head of a duck, neatly made. The 

 upper portion of a similar head is on the opposite side. As we have said, this 

 form of ornamentation, so novel for Florida, is, in this case, repousse, and was not 

 modelled previously and fastened on by pressure, as is the case of the human head 

 from the mound near Old Okahumpka, described in this volume. These two 

 examples of such use of effigies of heads are the only ones to come under our notice 

 in Florida. The height of this interesting vessel is 7.75 inches; its maximum 



1 Since writing the above these mounds were investigated with negative results. 



