Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . haps an eagle, well rounded and treated in a conventional yet remarkablemanner. The hooked bill is seen in profile, and the eye, modeled in low relief, issurrounded by a peculiar figure colored white and outlined in a broad smoothly in-cised line, the color of the head being red. The incised line of the outline is con-tinued down the curved beak to indicate the mouth. The outlining in a smooth in-cised line and the use of the angular indentations seen above and behind the FLORIDA. 125 eye are Floridian ceramic features, while the col
Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . haps an eagle, well rounded and treated in a conventional yet remarkablemanner. The hooked bill is seen in profile, and the eye, modeled in low relief, issurrounded by a peculiar figure colored white and outlined in a broad smoothly in-cised line, the color of the head being red. The incised line of the outline is con-tinued down the curved beak to indicate the mouth. The outlining in a smooth in-cised line and the use of the angular indentations seen above and behind the FLORIDA. 125 eye are Floridian ceramic features, while the coloring and the general shape aremore typically western. The head has been broken, no doubt, from the rim of abowl which was probably a handsome specimen of southern ceramic art. The frag-ment shown in Fig. 5, is of the same style of ware and probably belonged to thesame or to a similar bowl. Fig. 6, represents a rudely modeled birds head brokenfrom the rim of a bowl on which it Avas placed to face inward. It belongs to thesame general type as the Figs. 1 i and 14. Pottery of tine paste from the shell Sand Mound.—From the Thursby mound on the St. Johns Rivernear Lake Beresford, Volusia Count}, Mr. Moore secured a unique collection of up-wards of three hundred articles of clay comprising vessels and vessel-like objects,animal figurines and vegetal and conventional forms. Nearly all are of the extem-porized variety and extremely rude in execution. The clay was hastily throwninto shape with the fingers almost without attempt at refinement of form or surfacefinish. The rudeness and newness are so marked that at first I was inclined toquestion their aboriginal origin and antiquity, but their manner of occurrence, asdescribed by Mr. Moore, their practical identity with other specimens found in as-sociation with original burials in a number of mounds, and their relations techni-cally with some of the ordinary varieties of earthenware seem to sufficiently estab
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