CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS, CENTRAL FLORIDA W.-COAST. 429 



The bunched burials were as follows : 



With no skull present, .... 



1 



With one skull, . " . 



8 



With two skulls, 



2 



With three skulls, 



4 



With five skulls, ..... 



1 



With eidit skulls, 



2 



A number of scattered bones found by us at one point in the mound, was 

 perhaps an aboriginal disturbance. 



There were included in our enumeration also one recent disturbance, and one 

 burial details as to which we do not find in our note book. 



About two-thirds the length of the mound from the western extremity, well in 

 toward the median line and continuing inward and eastward, not always in close 

 contact but spread, was a deposit of bones with which were fifty-seven skulls. With 

 this great mass, were three small deposits of calcined human bones. All this was 

 scored as one burial and completes the sixty-two burials counted by us. 



No skulls were saved from this mound. Judging from large fragments found, 

 cranial compression had not been practised. 



V/ith burial No. 1, a recent disturbance, were Vessels Nos. 1, 2 and 3, all of 

 most inferior ware, and in fragments. 



A conch-shell lay with a lone skull, and similar shells were 

 with burials or unassociated. 



Burial No. 22, a skeleton closely flexed on the left side, had on 

 the pelvic portion a beautiful pendant of slate (Fig. 82). 



With a bunched burial was a oraceful arrow- or lance-head of 

 chalcedony, while a flake of chert, evidently used as a knife, la}'' with 

 another bunched burial. 



A skeleton closely flexed on the right. Burial No. 32, had with 

 it : one hammer-stone ; four small masses of cherty material ; jjart 

 of a lance-head or of a dagger, of chert ; five fragmentary objects of 

 shell, chisels, etc. ; one tibia and one humerus, belonging to the 

 deer ; three deer tibiae and one humerus, in fragments ; one astrag- 

 alus of a deer ; bits of bone mainly belonging to the deer ; part of a 

 jaw of a small mammal; fragments of pointed implements of bone; 

 five entire implenients wrought from leg-bones of deer, and two, 

 each broken into two parts; three tubes of bone, each about 1.5 

 Fig. ss.-Pendant inchcs in length. 



of slate. Mound near '- , , . , 



the pitiiiociiascootie Near BuHal No. 33, a skeleton closely flexed on the right side, 



river. (Full size.) ... , ,^{ 1 r J 



were three piercing implements wrought irom cannon-bones ot deer, 

 and a number of fragments of bone, probably parts of implements. 



In the southern part of the mound, with Burial No. 30, a skeleton flexed on 

 the right side, was an inverted bowl, Vessel No. 4, oval in horizontal section, 13.8 



