530 CERTAIN SAND MOUNDS OF THE OCKLAWAHA RIVER, FLORIDA. 



COPPER. 



A small tubular bead of copper lay 3.5 feet from the surface, while, with a 

 large number of shell beads 1 foot down, were minute fragments of thin sheet 

 copper. 



With human remains, 5 feet 2 inches from the surface, lay an ornament of 

 sheet copper, 1.3 inches by 1.5 inches. Four flutings ran parallel to the lesser 

 diameter. Unfortunately, this object was badly injured by a blow of a spade. 



Five feet from the surface, with human remains and associated with many 

 shell beads, a thick sheet of mica, a small shark's tooth, three canines of some large 

 carnivore (one perforated for suspension, the others broken at a point preventing 

 determination), a pendant of quartz, and a small ellipsoidal object of shell, was a 

 disc of thin sheet copper, about .66 of one inch in diameter, resembling certain 

 ones taken by us from Mt. Royal, and figured in one instance in our account of 

 that mound. 



EARTHENWARE. 



The chief feature of this interesting little mound was the earthenware with 

 which it was filled. Sherds were abundant at all points, while vessels in fragments 

 were numerous, and unbroken ware not uncommon. In the case of one sherd, 

 interesting raised decoration was noticed around the aperture ; another bore incised 

 ornamentation ; but with these two exceptions, the sherds, when ornamented, 

 showed the use of crimson pigment exclusively, usually consisting of a uniform coat. 



No gritty ware was present in the mound, and, as a rule, the pottery was of 

 very inferior quality. 



Three feet from the surface, unassociated, was a small globular pendant of 

 earthenware, with projecting neck grooved for suspension. 



Three neatly made beads of earthenware of about the same size, the dimen- 

 sions of one being 1.1 inches by 1 inch by .8 of one inch, lay together with a por- 

 tion of an arrow head, 3.5 feet from the surface. 



Many vessels, some evidently of considerable size, were represented by portions 

 only, and these, being in comparatively small fragments, were not preserved. 



An interesting vessel, scaphoid in shape, imperforate as to the base, with 

 inverted rim, had a uniform coat of crimson pigment inside and out. It was found 

 unassociated, 3 feet from the surface. Length, 2.8 inches; width, 2.3 inches; 

 average height, 1.4 inches : diameter of aperture, 2 inches by 1.3 inches (Plate 

 LXXXVI, Fig. 1). 



An undecorated circular bowl, with perforation of bottom made after baking, 

 lay apparently unassociated, 3 feet 8 inches from the surface. Height, 2.2 inches ; 

 diameter of opening, 4.2 inches. 



Near a fire-place, with charred human remains, 5 feet 2 inches from the 

 surface, was a vessel of inferior ware but of interesting design, consisting of two 



