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SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I924 



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WORK IN FLORIDA 



Archeological work in Florida was begun at St. Petersburg, Tampa 

 Bay, in the winter of 1923-1924. It was discovered that the prehistoric 



Fig. 105. — View of a road on Weeden Island, St. Petersburg, Florida, showing 

 semi-tropical vegetat'on. (Photograph by Beck.) 



inhabitants of the Everglade region and the Florida Keys showed 

 scant evidences of a relationship to the Muskhogean culture, but 

 from Tampa Bay north into the other Gulf States, archeological data 

 supported linguistic evidences of Muskhogean influences. 

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