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for suspension and showing where another has been (Fig.41), the other, fragmentary, 

 probably like the one just described, were found in the mound. 



There was also a handsome little gorget with six rounded points, and a 

 central perforation, shown in Fig. 42. 



A small number of shell beads were 

 present with one burial, and with another 

 were a discoidal bead of shell, about half 

 an inch in diameter, and an imperforate 

 shell disc of the same size. This scarcity 

 of shell beads in a burial place teeming 

 with objects of shell, is remarkable, and 

 equally noticeable was the absence of 



shell hair-pins, which class of objects Fi«- i2--0ruameDt of ^heIK_^Mound near Crystal river. 



was represented by certain fragments of 



what may or may not have belonged to a hair-pin of shell. 



Near the skull of a child, lay two shells pierced for suspension {Oliva reticu- 

 laris, and Cerithitcm, a fossil, a large undescribed variet}- from oligocene beds). 



Those who lay in the burial place near the great shell-heap had, in life, been 

 given to the wearing of pendent ornaments — of shell, of stone, of copper. 



Those of shell met with by us, 105 in number, were, as a rule, much affected 

 by disintegration, and hence it is hard to say how finished their original appearance 

 may have been. Doubtless they varied. On many is bitumen. One deposit, with 

 a burial, consisted of ten pendants of shell, each about 5.5 inches in length. Another 

 deposit of pendants consisted of one of lime-rock and five of shell, one being 9.25 

 inches in length. A selection of pendent ornaments of shell, found during the 

 investigation, is shown in Fig. 43. 



During the digging there were found : hammer-stones of chert, and several of 

 quartz, fairly well rounded ; pebble-hammers, including several of sandstone and 

 pudding-stone ; hones of sandstone and of ferruginous sandstone ; flakes, and small, 

 partly chipped, masses of chert; a "waster," of chert, 5.5 inches long; and various 

 other fragments, and material of the class usually found in mounds. There were 

 also fourteen entire "celts," of various rocks and a large number of "celts" badly 

 broken. Some of these parts were afterward fitted together, which led us to believe 

 that perhaps, also, these "celts" had been ceremonially broken before placing them 

 in the mound. In length the " celts " varied from 2.5 to 12.5 inches. Incidentallv, 

 13 inches is the greatest length of any "celt" met with by us in the south. 



Thirty-one lance-points, arrowheads and knives, all of chert, were found during 

 the digging, often associated with other objects. Many of these were rude, though 

 a few were of excellent workmanship. In addition to these, from the same part ot 

 the mound whence came a number of "celts'' in fragments, was a deposit of three 

 lance-heads of brown chert, each broken in two parts ; the lower half of a similar 

 lance-head ; two upper halves of lance-points of dark brown chert ; three rude chert 

 arrowheads , four chips of chert ; the canine tooth of a large carnivore. Pre- 

 sumably the lance-heads in this deposit had been broken ceremonially. 



