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nearly circular bowls joined, originally with projecting handles 1 inch in length, 

 one from the outside of each. One handle was missing through breakage. Each 

 bowl had a portion of the base knocked out after completion. Dimensions of one 

 bowl, applying to both in the main : height, 1.4 inches ; length, 2.8 inches ; width, 

 2.4 inches (Plate LXXXV, Fig. 2). This unusual form of a double bowl, may be 

 a highly conventionalized form representing the open bivalve. We have seen the 

 type before, on one occasion from Mt. Royal, and several times from the low 

 mounds bordering the St. Johns between Jacksonville and the sea. General 

 Thruston figures 1 an artistic double vessel much more directly pointing to the shell, 

 as from Tennessee. 



Two and one-half feet from the surface was a globular bowl with perforation 

 of base after baking. A small hole on either side of the mouth had served for the 

 purpose of suspension. This vessel, with a height of 3.7 inches, a maximum dia- 

 meter of 4.5 inches and a diameter at aperture of 3 inches, was completely filled 

 with mussel shells. We do not recall the discovery by us before of any object in 

 vessels from Florida mounds with the exception of certain pebbles in one instance, 

 and an occasional vessel of inferior size placed within a larger one. 



A globular vessel and a bowl, both undecorated and both wanting a portion of 

 the bottom through breakage done after manufacture, lay together, 4 feet 8 inches 

 from the surface. 



Six feet down, beneath human remains, was an imperforate bowl with oval 

 section, decorated with red pigment inside and out. Depth, 2 inches; length, 4.2 

 inches; breadth, 3.6 inches. 



An unassociated vessel, 3 feet 6 inches down, with oval aperture and with 

 portion of bottom knocked out, had a coating of red pigment on the outside and on 

 the inside a band of the same color 3 to 4 inches in width, beginning at the margin. 

 Height, 8 inches ; average diameter of aperture, 10.5 inches. This vessel was 

 somewhat broken by pressure of sand. 



With fragments of a large bowl 1.5 feet from the surface, was an urn with 

 flaring rim and red pigment decoration on outside and part way down the interior. 

 Height, 7.7 inches; maximum diameter, 8.8 inches; width of top with rim, 6.8 

 inches ; diameter of aperture, 5.5 inches. A portion of the bottom is missing 

 through breakage after manufacture. Near this urn lay an undecorated globular 

 vessel of ordinary type. 



One foot three inches from the surface, with human remains immediately 

 above, were two flaring basins of the same pattern and of approximately the same 

 size, recalling in shape a basin from Thursby mound shown in Plate XXVI, Fig. 1, 

 in Part II of our Report on the St. Johns mounds. Traces of red pigment are 

 apparent on both sides of one and interiorly on the other. Height, 4.5 inches ; 

 maximum diameter, including the flaring rim, 18 inches. One bowl lay face down, 

 while the other, also inverted, lay upon it, covering about one-half its base. 



1 " Antiquities of Tennessee." 



