1893.] Shell Heaps of Florida. 711 
It will be remembered that the absence of pipes from the 
shell heaps was emphasized by Professor Wyman, and the 
writer, in upward of eighty shell heaps carefully explored, 
has heretofore found nothing indicating the use of tobacco by 
the eaters of shell fish, though pipes have been taken by him 
Fig. 2. (Full size.) 
Fig. 3. (Full size.) Fig. 4. (Full size.) 
from the burial mounds.’ A careful comparison, however, of 
the figures given herewith should convince the most skeptical 
that all three are fragmentary parts of vessels used in the 
smoking of tobacco, and such is the opinion of Professor 
Haynes who has made a careful examination of the speci- 
mens. i 
During the excavation a mass of baked clay was found 
bearing the imprint. of human fingers. 
At a depth of 21 feet was found a mass of clay about six 
inches in height, unbroken, resembling half the cast of a pot. 
It is quite evident that whatever its use may have been, clay 
could readily have been moulded around it when placed with 
one of similar proportions.’ 
? It is possible that the masses of clay referred to by Squier and Davis 
(Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley, page 149) were of similar 
character. 
