516 SEMINOLE INDIANS OF FLORIDA. 
Koonti is passed through several successive fermentations, thereby 
making it purer and whiter than the Indian product. Improved appli- 
ances for the manufacture are used by the white man. 
The Koonti bread, as I saw it among the Indians, was of a bright 
orange color, and rather insipid, though not unpleasant to the taste. It 
was saltless. Its yellow color was owing to the fact that the flour had 
had but one fermentation. ; 
INDUSTRIAL STATISTICS. 
The following is a summary of the results of the industries now en- 
gaged in by the Florida Indians. It shows what is approximately true 
of these at the present time: 
Acres:1inder cultivation: 26 <-cee ce cmteeee cee Seielece oats cle <inatece stata la letetetnreinia arate 100 
(Bfeont eM il see Coens pons coaBan ORO SDO can OSdSSDSE sade asosé sone bushels. - 500 
Sugar cane -- ...--- ------ eee cence e eee eee cee cece ee eee eee ee gallons... 1,500 
(OP an: Een ee eae ree soem cee ea. cos Cdamcecsteoon-ssecvaaes number owned.-. 50 
Swit). ~ = Siete =p siatetalaleie ees ele ee ee lee ain eialnte eel ania isle i siele let ae dot=s- 15,000) 
@hitkens ss <5 lisece case ct meeaee otis ceca snemeere ee cm cece eaten Oeeter 500 
TOLSES 25a eee oe b wee eee cee ee elec en ae acoso Oe ee eee eee era Oem 35 
MOON ese ere neaioee Wascne seecue sas ocon OSE cabo Hases6 S555s8 Se56 bushels... 5, 000 
Sweet TOMES arc oe cdaoco es so sees So psec 6a sass sees cose dena sctDcens aes 
NG Gy (ieee sen eae Saas aac beasees -moteneaoobonoaeSdeess Ssenae number... 3, 000 
ARTS. 
INDUSTRIAL ARTS, 
In reference to the way in which the Seminole Indians have met ne- 
cessities for invention and have expressed the artistic impulse, I found 
little to add to what I have already placed on record. 
Utensils and implements.—The proximity of this people to the Euro- 
peans for the last three centuries, while it has not led them to adopt the 
white man’s civilization in matters of government, religion, language, 
manners, and customs, has, nevertheless, induced them to appropriate 
for their own use some of the utensils, implements, weapons, &c., of 
the strangers. For example, it was easy for the ancestors of these 
Indians to see that the iron kettle of the white man was better in every 
way than their own earthenware pots. Gradually, therefore, the art of 
making pottery died out among them, and now, as I believe, there is no 
pottery whatever in use among the Florida Indians. They neither make 
nor purchase it. They no longer buy even small articles of earthen- 
ware, preferring tin instead, Iron implements lhkewise have supplanted 
those made of stone. Even their word for stone, “Tcat-to,” has been 
applied to iron. They purchase hoes, hunting knives, hatchets, axes, 
and, for special use in their homes, knives nearly two feet in length. 
With these long knives they dress timber, chop meat, ete. 
Weapons.—They continue the use of the bow and arrow, but no longer 
for the purposes of war, or, by the adults, for the purposes of hunting. 

