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



found unassociated with other ware. In the beak is a circuhxr hole which would 

 allow the use of the head as a pendent ornament. We got, on the Island of Marco, 

 one of the northern-most of the Ten Thousand Islands (see outline map) a bird-head 

 handle of a vessel, with a groove around the neck, showing the use of the head as a 



pendant. 



Sherds in the mound were numerous but did not lie in deposits. The great 

 majority are of ordinary ware and undecorated. Some, however, are of excellent 

 material. Red pigment had been used in several instances and punctate markings 

 and the check-stamp are represented. The complicated stamp was not met with. 



There were also in the mound, unassociated : a small hatchet, seemingly of 

 igneous rock ; a triangular weapon or tool, of chert ; a bit of fossil wood ; a number 

 of flakes and chippings, of chert; a pendant of volcanic rock (Fig. 64). 



Mound near Indian Bend, Hernando County. 

 This name is given to a bight in the swamp bordering the Gulf, around which 

 grow pine trees, and oaks in places. The mound at Indian Bend is about two 

 miles in a straight line almost due south from the landing at the head of Chassa- 

 howitzka river. It had been dug into in a limited way before our visit and seemed, 

 in addition, to have been greatly trampled by cattle. Its height was 4 feet. It was 

 48 feet across its circular base. Fifteen trenches were dug in toward the center 

 until, at the union of these trenches, a portion from 32 feet to 34 feet in diameter 

 remained. This part was entirely demolished. 



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Burials, eight in num- 

 ber, in the last stage of de- 

 cay, were: two lone skulls; 

 four' small bunches, each 

 with a skull ; one bunch 

 without a skull ; and, cen- 

 trally, a skeleton flexed on 



Fig. 63.— Hauj^e of vessel. Mound near 

 the Chassahowitzka river. (Full size.) 



Fig. 64.— Pendant of stone. 

 Mound near tlie Chassahow- 

 itzka river. (Full size.) 



Fig. 65. — Sherd. Mound near 

 Indian Bend. (Half size.) 



the right side with a few shell beads at the wrist. 



Exceptionally few sherds were met with in this mound. Most were undecora- 

 ted; some had the check-stamp; one had encircling, parallel lines incised (Fig. 65) 

 which gave the ware the appearance of the coil method of manufacture. 



