424 CRYSTAL RIVER REVISITED. 
Near the skull of the skeleton of a child, six or seven years of age, were one 
shell chisel and eight stone pendants. 
With a full-length burial were: twenty-one pointed implements of bone, entire, 
and seventeen of the same material, some broken, some partly decayed; five lan- 
cets of the sting-ray (7vygon); а lot of marine shells (JZacroca//zsta gigantea): а 
fragment of a columella of Fu/gur, bits of stone; sand colored red with hematite 
and yellow with limonite; a number of astragali and phalanges, with part of a jaw- 
bone, of a deer. All this deposit lay above the legs and feet of the skeleton. 
Near the skull of a skeleton at full length on the back were four lanceheads 
of chert and one of quartzite; also a mass of fossil wood about 4.5 inches long, 
square in cross section. 
With certain disconnected bones in the shell layer was the skull of a child 
near which were two pendants, one of stone, the other of shell, the grooved ends 
toward the skull. 
Near the skull of the skeleton of a child, lying full length on the back, were 
a pendant of shell and one of stone. The grooved end of one of these pendants 
lay toward the skull, while the corresponding end of the other was directed oppo- 
sitely. Incidentally, we may say here that the exact position of pendants in rela- 
tion to parts of the human skeleton was a matter carefully noted by us during our 
work at Crystal River. As a rule, when pendants were not ceremonial deposits 
apart from human remains, or were not scattered as a result of aboriginal disturb- 
ance but lay immediately associated with a skeleton, the grooved end of the pend- 
ant lay nearest the bones. Sometimes, however, the grooved end was directed 
outward. This variety of position, we think, readily can be accounted for by call- 
ing to mind that a suspended ornament hanging taut would have the grooved end, 
around which the cord was placed, directed toward the point of suspension; while, 
should the strain be removed, as would be the case were the skeleton placed in a 
recumbent position, the upper ends of some of the pendants could swing outward. 
A skeleton lying at full length on its back had a shell drinking-cup near the 
pelvis, and under the right knee nine marine shells (Macrocallista gigantea), the 
valves tightly closed, and pierced for suspension at points below the muscular 
attachment. 
A skeleton partly flexed on the left side had on the thorax eight chisels and 
gouges, three made from the axis of the conch and five from its body-whorl. 
A skeleton at full length had near the skull one shell pendant and one of 
stone. Over the shoulder and at the pelvis were fragments of mica. А stone 
pendant lay below the shoulder. On the thorax was part of a lancehead of chert. 
Above the chest were two pointed implements of bone. At the right forearm was 
a mass of green material kindly identified by Dr. George P. Merrill, Head Curator 
of Geology, United States National Museum, as arenaceous clay colored by iron. 
Sand dyed with hematite lay at the feet of the skeleton. 
A noteworthy fact to which reference has hitherto been made is that nearly 
all objects of the greatest interest found in the entire investigation came from the 
