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S.MITHSOXIAX MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIOXS 



VOL. 



ANTHROPOLOGICAL SURVEY OF TllL SOUTI 1 WESTERN COAST 



OF FLORIDA 



111 Xovember. lyiS, Dr. Ales Hrdlicka supj^lemented his former 

 work in Moricki by a four weeks" exploration of the little known 

 region of the Ten Thousand Islands. The objects of this journey, 

 which was carried out under the avispices of the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology, were to trace the anthroj^ological type of the former 

 aboriginal ]X)i)ulation along this unknown remainder of the western 

 coast of the peninsula, and to stud}' such Seminole Indians as could be 

 found roaming- among the islands. 



The results will be ]ml)lished more fully later. They are l)rietly as 

 follows: The region of the coast south of Kev Marco, which was 



Fk;. 68. — The }vIangro\'e Swamps. 



supposed to be of no great account as far as aljoriginal remains were 

 concerned, was found to be full of sites, shell heaps, platforms, and 

 mounds, with canals and other evidences of former Indian occupa- 

 tion, the remains covering in individual instances 20, 30, and even 

 80 acres of ground. C)nlv the southernmost parts of the coast are 

 poor in such remains. And all of this is still intact so far as scienti- 

 fic ex|)loration is concerned. 



It was determined that these remains are thrf)ughout of the 

 same class, though differing in very interesting' details, and the con- 

 clusion seems justified that they re])resent the same culture and 

 people, identifiable with those farther north, up to and beyond 

 Charlotte Harbor. A ])art of these people were known historically 

 as the Caloosas, and have left their name in that of the Caloosahachee 



