CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS OF THE NW. FLORIDA COAST. 2G9 



With Burial No. 8, a mixture of bones, some Ijelonging to an adult, some to a 

 child, near the skull of each was a graceful pendant probably of slate, each about 

 4.0 inches in length, of the type of a larger one from this mound, to be figured later. 



Burial No. 13, a flexed skeleton, had with it four pebbles. 



Burial No. 15, a bunch, had with it a rattle made of a turtle-shell holding a 

 number of rather carefully flattened bits of chert. 



Burial No. 19, a skull with a single femur, lying in a grave, had a rude 

 earthenware pot some distance above. Probably this association was accidental, as 

 in no other case in this mound was earthenware found with a burial. 



With Burial No. 27, a flexed skeleton, were 33 pebbles. 



Burial No. 39 consisted of a pit of considerable size, below the base, in which 

 were the flexed skeletons of three adults and parts of skulls and other bones of three 

 inf^ints or children, the remaining bones of these skeletons having doubtless disap- 

 peared through decay. At the wrist of one of the adult skeletons were twenty-nine 

 perforated bits of shell, some neatly shaped ; seventy-six teeth of the large porpoise 

 {Turriops turrio), kindly identified by Prof. F. A. Lucas, of the National Museum, 

 all perforated, some through the enamel, but nearly all through the base of the tooth ; 

 and eight pieces of bone, all perforated and more or less rudely made to resemble 

 teeth. With these was a small imperforate tooth of a shark of the present geologi- 

 cal period. A selection of these ornaments is given in Fig. 230, the shell being to 

 the left, the bone to the right. 



As is so often the case with children in mounds, those in this grave had been 

 especially favored. With one was a pendant, probably of slate, about 5 inches 

 long, of the same pattern as the one next to be described, having bitumen still 

 adhering to the groove. With another was the most interesting pendant it has been 

 our fortune to take from a mound. The material is probably slate. The length is 

 8.75 inches (Fig. 231). The remaining skull had beside it a gorget of shell cut in 

 the shape of a fish. There are two holes for suspension (Fig. 232). In this grave 

 were also a few shell beads. 



Burial No. 42, near Burial No. 39, resembled it in being a large grave below 

 the base, but while No. 39 had a few clam-shells only, scattered here and there above 

 it, this grave was filled in with almost a solid mass of them. The grave contained 

 the flexed skeletons of two adults and the bones of an infant or child, badly crushed, 

 with which was the tooth of a fossil shark, 2 inches long, perforated for use as a 

 pendant. 



Burial No. 54, a bunch of bones belonging to an adolescent, had inverted over 

 the skull a perforated shell drinking cup. 



With Burial No. 72, bones which fell in caving sand, were fragments of a sheet 

 copper ornament corroded through and through. 



With other burials were hammer-stones, hones, pebbles, masses of chert and five 

 or six arrowheads or knives, one of chalcedony, one of quartzite, the remainder of 

 chert. 



Also in the mound, in caving sand, so that the proximity to bones could not be 



