. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . .53. Among the animal forms obtained at this point are two stronglymodeled heads of large size, apparently representing geese. Shellforms are common (see plate lxvii), and the engraved designs, treatedfarther on, are striking and instructive. From four sites along thenorthern and eastern shores of Choctawhatchee bay Mr Moore obtainedlarge and very interesting collections. Perdido bay and westernforms prevail, but there is a strong infusion of elements of Appa-lachian and Floridian art. A fragm
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . .53. Among the animal forms obtained at this point are two stronglymodeled heads of large size, apparently representing geese. Shellforms are common (see plate lxvii), and the engraved designs, treatedfarther on, are striking and instructive. From four sites along thenorthern and eastern shores of Choctawhatchee bay Mr Moore obtainedlarge and very interesting collections. Perdido bay and westernforms prevail, but there is a strong infusion of elements of Appa-lachian and Floridian art. A fragment of a cylindric bowl with thehead of a duck modeled in relief at the top and conventional incisedfigures representing the body below appears in plate lxviii a; and twoviews of a hunchback-figure vase are given in /> and <:. Of special interest is a small jar or bottle from a mound on Jolly « Moore, Clarence B., Certain aboriginal remains of the Alabama river, in Journal of the Academyof Sciences, vol. xi. Philadelphia, 1899. BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY TWENTIETH ANNUAL REPORT PL. LXII. a (DIAMETER BB 17i INCHES)
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