CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS, CENTRAL FLORIDA W.-COAST. 399 



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A neatl}- made blunt-pointed implement of fossil material, from the mound, 

 witli incised decoration on one side, is shown in Fig. 44. Two cigar-shaped imple- 

 ments, also of fossil material, are given in Fig. 45. 



A carefully smoothed ellipsoidal 



hammer-stone of lime-rock, about 4 



inches long, shows marks of consider- 

 able use. Two bar-amulets, one of 



lime-rock, one of thin, banded slate, 



came from the mound and many sheets 



of mica were found during the entire 



investigation. None of these had any 



particular shape and none was per- 

 forate. 



One hundred and eleven pendent 



ornaments of various rocks were met 



with during the investigation. As 



mutilation of the specimens was not 



deemed advisable, there has not been 



an exact determination as to material. 



Many are of the lime-rock, and some, 



of the ferruginous lime-rock, of the dis- 

 trict ; others are of igneous rocks ; 



two long ones are of slate. One is of 



calcite and doubtless there are other 



rocks not included in this enumeration. 



Several are of quartz, including two 



beautifully made of rock-crystal, one 



of which has, presumably, a conventionalized bird-form (Fig. 46). 

 Ten well-made pendants, shown in Fig. 47, lay with a 



burial with which was sand dyed with hematite. 

 A selection from the various stone pendants found by us is given in Figs. 48, 

 49, 50, 51, among which are shown a long slate pendant similar to those found by us 

 the preceding year along the northwest coast, one pendant with a central perfora- 

 tion, and several doubtless intended to represent conventionalized birds. 



On the base of the mound, in the southern slope, was tlie skeleton of an adult, 

 lying full length on back. Extending across the pelvis, sagging down somewhat, 

 was a row of pendants of stone, among which were three of coppec, 4.7 inches, 5.75 

 inches, 6 inches long, respectively, of the same type as the long ones of slate from 

 this mound, one of which has already been figured. Seemingly, all these pendants 

 had hung from the waist in the manner shown by Le Moyne on aborigines of the 

 St. Johns river, Florida. Along the lower part of tlie left arm, which lay extended 

 down the left side of the body, were other pendants, or charm-stones, which may 

 have fallen over from a belt at the waist. Exclusive of the copper, 39 pendants, 



Fig. 45. — Objects of fossil material. 

 Mound near Crystal river. 

 (Full size.l 



Fig. 44.— Object of fossil 

 material. Mound near 

 Crystal river. (Full 

 size.) 



