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With a bunched burial was a rude " celt " of sandstone, associated with a 

 copper ornament. 



EARTHENWARE. 



Sherds, plain or decorated with red pigment, were very numerous. No vessels, 

 whole or approximately so, were encountered. 



We have obtained from Mr. Russell W. Bennett, of Helena, a sherd which he 

 informs us was ploughed up from this mound. This fragment of earthenware, 

 shown in Fig. 91, is of considerable interest, as possessing the only plastic effigy of 

 the human face ever seen by us in Florida. This face, apparently modeled by 

 hand, appears to have been constructed separately, and pressed onto the clay of 

 the vessel previous to baking. 



The reader will recall that this joining of heads to earthenware was prevalent 

 in other sections. Upon but one other occasion in Florida have we seen a head of 

 any sort serving as a decoration on the side of a vessel of earthenware and in that 

 case a portion of a vessel from a low mound near the mouth of the St. Johns had 

 the head of a duck, not added to it by pressure, but repousse. 



COPPER. 



With bones tinged green from contact and in association with a few small 

 shell beads were the remains of a long tubular bead of copper overlaid on a cylinder 

 of fibrous wood. 



Eighteen inches from the surface was a heavy bead of copper .7 of one inch by 

 .6 of one inch, in contact with a human lower jaw which formed part of a bunched 

 burial. 



With a burial about 4.5 feet from the top of the mound was a sheet of copper, 



2.8 inches by 6 inches, bent under and crumpled at one end. The two shorter and 

 one larger side show a clean-cut edge, but the uneven appearance of one larger side 

 proves but a portion of the plate to have been inhumed. The state of this copper 

 sheet precludes inspection of the entire ornamentation which is repousse and seems 

 to be of an interesting character, entirely dissimilar from the usual lines of semi- 

 perforations. With it were bark and some fibrous material, a rude "celt" of sand- 

 stone and a small core of chert. 



SHELL. 



With a burial were fifty-six beads of shell, many of unusual size, the largest 



1.9 inches in length. Many were not symmetrical but were apparently perforated 

 portions of great marine univalves such as are figured as massive beads in Holmes' 

 "Art in Shell." With the beads was a polished stone hatchet. 



REMARKS. 



There seems to be no reason to connect this mound with a period subsequent 

 to the coming of the Whites. 



