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with four feet (Fig. 11). А part, missing when the rest of the vessel was found, 
has been restored. 
Throughout this second investigation we unearthed fifty-three drinking cups 
wrought from conch-shells (Fulgur perversum),' 
of which twenty-one are imperforate and thirty- 
three bear the mortuary mutilation of the base. 
This number of cups, however, by no means 
represents the total of such cups in the tract 
dug through by us, inasmuch as many, probably 
as many again as we have noted, were found 
badly decayed and broken into fragments. Five 
other drinking cups were made respectively 
from Fasciolaria gigantea, Fasciolaria tulipa, 
Cassis cameo, Fulgur pyrum, апа Fulgur 
carica. The last shell is of extreme rarity on 
the western coast of Florida so far as our experience has gone. 
Thirty-three chisels and gouges, made from columelle of large marine uni- 
valves, were found during our work. As we noticed before, these columellæ occa- 
sionally had a wing or flange left at the cutting edge to increase the gauge. 
Seven gouges were met with, made from roughly triangular sections of the 
body whorl of Fulgur perversum. Several 
of these are unfinished, the grinding of the 
cutting edge apparently having been omitted. 
There were found also seven “celts” fash- 
ioned from the thick lip of Strombus gigas. 
Most of these, as well as the majority of other 
objects of shell found during this investiga- 
tion, were badly affected by lapse of time, 
some being covered with a thick coating of 
patina, which, peeling off in places, left them 
in a rather sorry condition. 
During the digging were found: clam- 
shells showing wear; triangular sections of 
clam-shells ; cockle-shells (Cardzum) perforated 
for the reception of handles; a conch (Fu/gur 
perversum) with two perforations for insertion 
Fic. 11.— Vessel No. 37. Crystal River. (About of a handle at right-angles to the shell. 
cape No fewer than forty gorgets of shell were 
found during our second visit to Crystal River, and had the aborigines who lived 
near the great shell-heap made use of engraved designs on these ornaments, as was 
sometimes the aboriginal custom elsewhere, the yield would have been interesting 
indeed. Unfortunately, most of the gorgets from Crystal River lacked decoration 
(Half size). 
! Dr. Н. A. Pilsbry kindly has determined all shells referred to in this paper. 
