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A little broken pottery and one stone artifact were picked up from 

 the surface on the tops of these hills. From the hilltop to the south- 

 west they brought back 2 well-modeled bird head lugs (fig. 32, d, e), 

 and from that to the northeast about 10 small sherds. These include 

 two rims from small bowls with constricted orifices and flaring lips, 

 and a thick body sherd (.9 cm in thickness). All sherds from Morat 

 are a reddish monochrome, except one curved sherd with a convention- 

 alized manatee head lug. This lug has a purplish-red framework of 

 design around it. The shape of the lug suggests Polychrome II, but 

 the painted design is more like Polychrome I. The only nonceramic 

 artifact recovered was the central portion of a cylindrical stone bark 

 beater (pi. 16, fig. i, m). One end is completely covered with narrow 

 longitudinal grooves, the other rounded for a handle. 



Possibly there are ofifertory deposits on top of these hills, but other 

 than the few sherds, no surface indications were noticed. The shore 

 line was not examined, and there may be aboriginal sites there. We 

 had only a few hours on the island and did no digging. 



BoNACCA Island 



This island seems to contain more striking surface indications of 

 aboriginal occupation than do any of the others, but archeological 

 material from here is not very abundant. An exception to this state- 

 ment is the Mitchell-Hedges collection assigned to Bonacca, in the 

 Museum of the American Indian, the bulk of which presumably came 

 from the Sacrificial Spring. The Boekelman Shell Heap Expedition 

 and the Smithsonian Expedition examined numerous sites on Bonacca, 

 but owing to lack of time for any extensive excavations, they obtained 

 comparatively little material. The island is one of the most attractive 

 of the group and, given adequate time for exploration, would un- 

 doubtedly yield far more evidence of native occupation than is now 

 available. The only modern town of any size is that of Bonacca on 

 Sheen Cays (see map, fig. 33), but there are good anchorages on both 

 the northwest and southeast shores, from which all portions of the 

 island could be examined. At present, only a strip northeast across 

 the island from the town of Bonacca and a narrow strip between 

 Savannah and Mangrove Bights (see map, fig. 33) have been reported 

 on. We were greatly assisted in our work by Sandy Kirkconnel of 

 Bonacca town, who owns the Plan Grande portion of the island and 

 who guided us on that ptjrtion of our trip. As was true on nearly 

 all the other islands the local officials and residents were very friendly 



