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SM niisox lAX M isci:li.axi-:ous coi.i.f.ctioxs 



vor,. 70 



AXTIIROPOI.OCICAI. SL'RXr.V OF THl-. SOl'Tl 1 Wl' ST1<:RN COAST 



OF FLORn\\ 



In Xoveml)or. i()i8, Or. Ales llrdlicka supplcinonlcd liis fonncr 

 work in Mciriila 1\v a four weeks" cxpk)ration of the little known 

 vei^ion of the Ten Thousand Islands. The ohjeets of this join-nev. 

 whieh was earricd out under the aus]iiees o\ the Ihu'eau of Ameriean 

 luhnoloi^y, were to trace the anthropoloj^ieal t\|)e of the former 

 ahoriginal poinilation alon_>;- this unknown remainder of the western 

 coast of the peninsula, and to study such Seminole Indians as could ho 

 foimd roaming- among- the islands. 



The results will he puhlished more fully later. Thev are hriellv as 

 follows: The region of the coast south of Kev Marco, which was 



Fu;. 08. — The ALangroxe Swamps. 



sui:)posed to be of no great account as far as ahoriginal remains were 

 concerned, was found to he full of sites, shell heaps, jilat forms, and 

 mounds, with canals and other e\-idences of former Indian ticcupa- 

 tion. the remains covering- in individual instances 20. 30. and even 

 80 acres of ground. Only the southernmost parts of the coast are 

 poor in such remains. .\nd ;dl of this is still intact so far as scienti- 

 lic exjiloration is conceriuHl. 



It was determined that these remains are throughout o\ the 

 same class, though dilTering in very inieresling details, and the con- 

 clusion seems justitied that they represent the same culture and 

 jX'ople, identihahle with those farther north, up to and hex-ond 

 Charlotte llarhor. A luirl ot these ]ieo]ile were known historically 

 as the I'aloosas. and have left iheii- name in that of the (."aUHisahachee 



