NOTES ON THE ТЕХ THOUSAND ISLANDS, FLORIDA. 459 
aboriginal deposits of shell; some are too handsomely made to have served a 
utilitarian purpose; while one in our possession is of a coralline material so light 
that it hardly sinks in water. We found in the cemetery and mound near Crystal 
River,' Florida, in place on a skeleton, a number of stone pendants associated with 
others made of copper. We believe these pen- 
dants from the keys served some ornamental or 
ceremonial purpose—perhaps they were * charm- 
stones." It is true, as we have said, that many 
of the stone pendants of the keys are crude, but 
much of the stone of that locality is not of 
character conducive to good workmanship. 
Fic. 1.—Pendant d Е FIG. 2.—Pendant of FiG.3.—Pendant FiG.4.— Pendant of 
Marco, Key Marco. (Abou limestone. Marco, ofshell. Marco, shell. Marco, 
full size.) Key Marco. (About Key Marco. {еу Mare 
full size.) (About full ( About full size.) 
size.) 
Two interesting pendants from Marco probably represent ducks’ heads. One 
(Fig. 5) is of a hard stone not found in Florida, but we have not wished to muti- 
late it for exact determina- 
tion. The other, of lime- 
stone, is shown in Fig. 6. 
These pendants are another 
of the indications of the 
high esteem in which the 
duck was held by the 
ancient southern Indians. 
A circular ornament of Fig. 5.—Duck-head Еее D TS poem Marco, Key 
shell from Marco, and a 
curiously-shaped pendant of limestone from the same place, are shown in Figs. 
7, 8, respectively. 
1“ Certain Aboriginal Mounds of the Central Florida West-Coast.” Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. of 
Phila., Vol. XII, p. 99, 1903. 
