1896,] 431 [Cushing. 



specimen, in situ ; and fortunately, also, it was immediately yielded to 

 Mrs. Cushing's care. For she placed it, with a few other choice speci- 

 mens, in a protected corner of our cabin, turning it and them, carefully, 

 tlaily, so that they dried so evenly and slowly that they neither warped 

 nor checked — only grew smaller in the process. 



Fig. 3, — a, b, c, d, e, and f. The illustration here oflfersd has been so 

 fully referred to in various portions of the text, especially on pp. 393, 

 394 and 402, that little need be added. 



While the central figure represents the art of the Georgia mound 

 builders, the marginal figures (of warclub, a — described on p. 373) ; of 

 plait-bound wrist-band and leg-band (b, c, — both painted in ventral 

 valve of a sun-shell, described on pp. 386, 387 and illustrated in Fig. 4, 

 Plate XXXIV) ; of large, inlaid, eye-like ear-button (d, — described on 

 pp. 374, 375) ; and of mask and ear-plug (/, — respectively described 

 on p. 375 and pp. 388 et seq.), are taken from objects and art specimens 

 found by us in the Court of the Pile Dwellers, at Key Marco. The corre- 

 spondence between them and the details and paraphernalia of the 

 Georgia figure, is sufficiently apparent at a glance. 



It is desirable, however, to indicate several other points of correspon- 

 dence which might have been as clearly shown, given more ample scope 

 of illustration. In fact, our finds in the keys, — carefully observed in 

 their relations to one another, — actually furnish a nearly complete com- 

 mentary or explanation, of almost everything portrayed in connection 

 with this remarkable delineation of the ancient mound builders so 

 skilfully rendered and accurately reproduced in Prof. Holme's drawing 

 here given. 



To begin with, the war-club we found was practical — a war-club for 

 use ; while the baton-like war-club held in the hand of the figure was 

 ceremonial and decorative. Nevertheless, our specimen, like the one in 

 the figure, was furnished with a knob at the end, grooved for the attach- 

 ment ot a tassel, precisely like the other one, conventionally shown in 

 this figure ; that is, the cord of attachment had been furnished, not with 

 two, but with one, slidiug-bead (similar beads of both shell and deer- 

 horn were frequently found by us). The node below these beads had 

 been formed by enwrapping a little conical plug of wood lengthwise 

 and then around — in a manner quite familiar to our grandmothers, and 

 shown clearly in the figure before us — and the fringe of the tassel had 

 been made of combined yellow, and green, very finely twisted, sea island 

 cotton cordage. 



I liave already commented upon the beads of the necklace worn in 

 this figure. The pendant hanging therefrom, represents a typical form 

 found in all the more northerly of the Florida Keys. It is made from the 

 columnella and a portion of the spire of the busycon-conch-shell so com- 

 mon there. These large-headed, pin-like pendants, were not only used 

 as such, on necklaces, but were also favorite ear-spikes and -pendants 

 combined. When worn as ear-spikes, they were thrust through the 



