Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . n found, were 522 CERTAIN SAND MOUNDS OF THE OCKLAWAHA RIVER, FLORIDA. in the last stage of decay. At one point on the base was a layer of intermingledbones representing a number of individuals. No human remains were saved. EARTHEN WAKE. Great numbers of sherds, usually undecorated, some, however, bearing tracesof reel pigment, and, in two instances at least, ornamented with graceful curvesand lines, were met with. A number of fragmentary vessels were found which hadevidently been interred in an incomplete condition, as careful searc
Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . n found, were 522 CERTAIN SAND MOUNDS OF THE OCKLAWAHA RIVER, FLORIDA. in the last stage of decay. At one point on the base was a layer of intermingledbones representing a number of individuals. No human remains were saved. EARTHEN WAKE. Great numbers of sherds, usually undecorated, some, however, bearing tracesof reel pigment, and, in two instances at least, ornamented with graceful curvesand lines, were met with. A number of fragmentary vessels were found which hadevidently been interred in an incomplete condition, as careful search failed to revealthe missing portions. This utilizing of otherwise useless earthenware was veryprevalent among the makers of the mounds in Florida. Fragments of variousvessels showed perforation of the base subsequent to manufacture. One small vessel, somewhat broken (Plate LXXXV, Fig. 1), with evertedbrim and stamped decoration on the body, had four feet for support, a somewhatuncommon occurrence in Florida, though we have met with it on the St. Johns in. Fig. 71.—Diagram, of incised delineation. Mound near Silver Springs. (Full size.) the mound at Racey Point, and have seen basal supports on fragments from themound at Tick Island and on vessels from Murphy Island. In a portion of the mound at some distance from previous excavations, so faras the most careful investigation could determine, at 3 feet from the surface, in sandwhere the closest scrutiny could discover no previous disturbance, was found, inour immediate presence, a portion of a small bowl of earthenware. The remainderwas not discovered, and was probably not present in the mound. The hollow por-tion of this fragment contained a solid mass of roots probably belonging to scrubpalmettoes on the surface of the mound. Upon examination by us it became CERTAIN SAND MOUNDS OF THE OCKLAWAHA RIVER, FLORIDA. 523 apparent that incised figures were on the fragment, one probably representing adeer, and that others had been on
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