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Platp: XXXII. 



Only a few typical examples of more than two hundred fairly well 

 preserved tools and weapons recovered by us from the court of the Pile 

 Dwellers, could here be figured. 



Fig. 1. Kepresents a hafted busycon-, or couch-shell gouge or adze — 

 such as described on p. 368. The length of the handle, which was of 

 buttonwood, was fifteen inches ; of the shell head or armature, seven 

 inches. This particular specimen was found by Gause, close to the 

 edge of the shell bench, — in section 21 (Plate XXXI). 



Fig. 2. Represents the handle of a carving-adze of hard, dark wood, 

 like madeira in appearance. It and others of its kind are described on 

 p. 369 of the text. The length of its handle, from end to crook, was 

 twelve inches ; of the head, from the crook down to the insertion of the 

 socketed blade-receptacle of deer horn, five and a fraction inches ; and of 

 this ingenious bit-holder, three inches. It was found with eight other 

 similarly crooked and socketed adze-handles — all contained in a cere- 

 monial pack, — in section 40 (Plate XXXI). 



Fig. 3. Represents a superb, single-hole atlatl, described with others, 

 on pp. 371 and 372. It is, by an oversight, figured upside doAvn in this il- 

 lustration — the tail of the rabbit-carving at the end, having been skilfully 

 adapted to form the propelling spur of this remarkable throwing-appa- 

 ratus. Its length was nineteen inches, and it was made from fine, 

 springy hard wood — like rose wood in appearance — probably the heart 

 portion of the so-called iron-wood of the region. It was found, associ- 

 ated with the plugged and hollowed or "footed " shaftment of an elabo- 

 rate cane throwing-spear, — in section 62 (Plate XXXI). 



Fig. 4. Represents a double-holed atlatl or spear- thrower. It is de- 

 scribed, with the preceding specimen, on pp. 371, 372 of the text, and 

 like it, consisted of dark, red-brown, flexible wood. It was sixteen 

 inches in length, and was found, — in section 29 (Plate XXXI). 



Fig. 5. Represents roughly, one of the singular and highly finished 

 hard-wood sabre-clubs armed with shark teeth, which are described on 

 pp. 372, 373 of the text. They were from twenty-four to thirty inches in 

 length, and probably, like the war-clubs of the Zuiii Indians, corre- 

 sponded to the length of arm, or of thigh from hip to knee, of those who 

 made and used them. The specimen here figured was found by Mr. 

 Bergmann, — in section 11 (Plate XXXI). 



Fig. 6. Represents a toy canoe, of cypress wood, nineteen and three- 

 quarter inches in length. As described on p. 365 of the text, it was 

 found with another of like proportions — to which it had been attached, 

 probably in imitation of sea-going catamaran-canoes of the ancient key 

 dwellers, by means of cross-stays, — by Gause and Clark, — in section 26 

 (Plate XXXI). 



Fig. 7. Represents a little flat-bottomed toy canoe, (such as described 

 on p. 364) of the kind supposed to have been used in canals, bayous, and 

 other shoal waters. It was found by myself, — in section 7 (Plate XXXI). 



Fig. 8. Represents a paddle of hard wood, the end of handle burned off 

 as described on pp. 361, 366. It was found by Gause, sticking slantingly 

 up through the muck, in the mouth of the inlet-canal, — in section 

 48 (Plate XXXI). 



