524 CERTAIN SAND MOUNDS OF THE OCKLAWAHA RIVER, FLORIDA. 



your specimen are smoothed over, as if considerable handling had taken place since 

 they were cut. If you will try this on a piece of the same kind of pottery you 

 will at once see the difference between the lines on the bowl and the lines that 

 you cut." 



The incised delineation of an animate object on earthenware has never before 

 been encountered by us in a sand mound, and but once previously in a shell-heap. 



In the island shell-heap constituting Mulberry mound, Orange County, Florida, 

 from a depth of 10 feet, were thrown out, in our presence, two fragments of the 

 same earthenware vessel, which, upon being fitted together, showed incised delinea- 

 tion representing a human head and portion of the body, the remainder of the 

 body having been on parts of the vessel not left in that portion of the shell-heap. 



Incised delineation of the human form on early earthenware, it may be inter- 

 esting to know, is believed to be represented by this specimen alone within the 

 limits of the United States and probably beyond. We have given in " The Ameri- 

 can Naturalist" x a full account of our work at Mulberry mound, and have borrowed 

 from it, for comparison, a representation of the incised figure (Fig. 72). Certain 

 parts of the delineation, represented in the cut as less distinct than others, are not 

 of unequal depth, but still contain a certain amount of soot, a relic of pre-historic 

 fires. This point, of considerable interest, shows the decoration to have been made 

 during the entirety of the pot, and not to have been scratched on a detached sherd 

 subsequent to breakage. 



STONE. 



Flakes and chippings of chert were present in the mound in unusual numbers. 

 Four arrowheads and, one drill, also of chert, were met with separately. 



A small polished cutting implement of compact igneous rock was in caved sand. 



On the base, near the margin of the mound, was a small object of sandstone, 

 probably an ornament, a little short of 2 inches in length. Its shape is ellipsoidal, 

 flattened on one side. A median groove is confined to the curved portion. 



In immediate association, 4.5 feet from the surface, lay eleven masses of chert 

 showing cleavage, varying in length from 3 to 9 inches, evidently material for 

 implements. Some were several pounds in weight. 



SHELL. 



At depths showing them to be of original deposit were two chisels probably 

 from the lip of Strombus and a gouge from the body whorl of Fulgur. One chisel 

 lay with human remains. The other was with a copper bead. 



COPPER. 



Three cylindrical beads of copper were found during the excavation, all appar- 

 ently of original deposit. These differed from beads of the same material found by 



1 August, 1893. 



