522 CERTAIN SAND MOUNDS OF THE OCKLAWAHA RIVER, FLORIDA. 



in the last stage of decay. At one point on the base was a layer of intermingled 

 bones representing a number of individuals. No human remains were saved. 



EARTHEN WAKE. 



Great numbers of sherds, usually undecorated, some, however, bearing traces 

 of reel pigment, and, in two instances at least, ornamented with graceful curves 

 and lines, were met with. A number of fragmentary vessels were found which had 

 evidently been interred in an incomplete condition, as careful search failed to reveal 

 the missing portions. This utilizing of otherwise useless earthenware was very 

 prevalent among the makers of the mounds in Florida. Fragments of various 

 vessels showed perforation of the base subsequent to manufacture. 



One small vessel, somewhat broken (Plate LXXXV, Fig. 1), with everted 

 brim and stamped decoration on the body, had four feet for support, a somewhat 

 uncommon occurrence in Florida, though we have met with it on the St. Johns in 



Fig. 71. — Diagram, of incised delineation. Mound near Silver Springs. (Full size.) 



the mound at Racey Point, and have seen basal supports on fragments from the 

 mound at Tick Island and on vessels from Murphy Island. 



In a portion of the mound at some distance from previous excavations, so far 

 as the most careful investigation could determine, at 3 feet from the surface, in sand 

 where the closest scrutiny could discover no previous disturbance, was found, in 

 our immediate presence, a portion of a small bowl of earthenware. The remainder 

 was not discovered, and was probably not present in the mound. The hollow por- 

 tion of this fragment contained a solid mass of roots probably belonging to scrub 

 palmettoes on the surface of the mound. Upon examination by us it became 



