CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS, CENTRAL FLORIDA W.-COAST. 375 



chert hammer-stone carefully Avorked ; a shell gouge ; part of a lance-head of chert, 

 5.6 inches long, 2.5 inches in maximum breadth, the point of which, broken by the 

 blow of a spade, was not recovered ; two masses of lime-rock, each with a circular 

 hole, probably used as sinkers ; a cigar-shaped object neatly made from the columella 

 of a large marine univalve (Fig. 10) ; a columella wrought to a cutting edge at 

 one end. 



With burials were : a chert arrowhead and a shell drinking cup with perforate 

 base; an arrowhead, of chalcedony ; a conchshell and several sherds; a shell drink- 

 ing cup without the basal perforation; two ornaments of shell (Figs. 11, 12). 



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Fig. 12.— Ornament of shell. Fig. 13.— Object of fossil 

 Mound near Gigger Point. material. Mound near 



(FjiUsize.) Gigger Point. (Full 



size.) 



Fig. 10. — Cigar-shaped object Fig. 11. — Pendant of shell. 



of shell. Mound near Gig- 

 ger Poiut. iFuU size.) 



Mound near Gigger Point. 

 (Full size.) 



With a skeleton in a shallow grave 

 were several mussel-shells, some on one 

 side of the skull, some on the other ; a 

 turtle-shell with no pebbles within ; parts 

 of a conch-shell or shells ; five sandstone 

 hones ; a fragment of chert ; a mass of 

 chert, about 2 inches in diameter, chipped 

 into a circular shape ; one smoothing 



stone ; the end of an implement of bone ; a small mass of serpentinous rock ; two 



nodules of hematite ; two silicious clay pseudomorphs; a bit of sandstone. 



With another burial were : a bit of earthenware; mica given the outline of an 



arrowhead ; an ellipsoidal pendant of igneous rock, with one end grooved and partly 



covered with bitumen, the other end broken. 



An unidentified object of fossil material (Fig. lo) we are confident came from 



this mound, thousih we do not find it described in our field-notes. 



