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One fragment of a rim showed a series of notches, and in two cases the loop- 
handle decoration was met with, probably from a vessel or vessels similar to one 
shown in Plate CX, “Twentieth Annual Report of the Bureau of American 
Ethnology.” * 
With the burials along the base of the mound no implement or ornament of 
European origin was found, but a slab of pine wood from the basal part of the 
mound, showed a clean cut which could have been made only with an axe of metal. 
Also on the base were found: a number of hammer- 
stones, some large; a bit of stone worked to a cutting edge ; 
a thin, triangular fragment of limestone, above a burial, 
about 1.5 feet in length as to its sides; a small fossil shark’s 
a tooth, near a skull; a number of conch-shells (Асия 
perversum); drinking-cups made from the same variety 
of shell; one Fudgur with ground beak, and with body- 
whorl removed, probably used as a chisel. There was 
Fic, T. Glas eros. Mound on 8180 an implement wrought from the heavier variety of 
Pine Island. (Fullsize) ylgur perversum, with part of the body-whorl removed 
and a hole below the shoulder, opposite the opening, to 
allow a handle to pass through at right angles, and another 
hole above this one and above the shoulder to facilitate the 
lashing of the handle. That part of the shoulder of the 
shell which is between these holes is greatly worn by the 
material used for attachment. The beak is much ground 
and splintered by use. A description of many shells used 
as implements by aborigines of southern Florida is given in 
id our “ Antiquities of the Florida West-Coast," * 
Fic. 8.—Object of earthenware. Also at the base of the mound were found: a large 
Mound on Pine Island. (Fall clamshell; a shell identified by Dr. Н. A. Pilsbry as Со/- 
lista nimbosa, lying beneath the shoulder of a skeleton; 
and a number of conchs, wrought to a certain extent but not sufficiently to show 
what their use had been. These conchs, all of which belong to the more delicate 
variety, may have been drinking-cups partly completed. 
With or near burials in the body of the mound were a single glass bead, a con- 
siderable number of small glass beads, one large hammer-stone, and one sandstone 
hone. | 
There were also, variously distributed with burials, five axes of the type 
obtained by aborigines from early white traders; three pairs of scissors ; two broad 
chisels; three knives; one pruning knife; one chisel or caulking-knife; one imple- 
ment 28 inches long, square in cross section, about .75 of an inch in diameter, 
pointed at one end. This implement, of iron or of steel (as were all the foregoing), 
presumably intended for a drill, may have seen service as a spear, when hafted. 
1 “ Aboriginal Pottery of Eastern United States," by W. H. Holmes. 
* Journal of the peces of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. XI. 
