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we are enabled to give half-tones of these pendants including two positions of the 

 unique carving of the duck's head (Figs. 24, 25, 26, 27, 28). 



The duck's head is of banded slate ; the three others are believed to be of 

 " trap " rock. Through a natural desire to avoid multilating the specimens, however, 

 microscopical sections have not been cut. 



Unfortunately the owner of the Turkey creek mound would permit no investi- 

 gation, but probably we can rely on the statement that the mound yielded nothing 

 after an extended [though probably not methodical] search. We know, however, 

 from our own rather extended experience along the coast 1 and from the reports of 

 others, including Mr. Douglass, that the mounds of Indian river contain prac- 

 tically no burials or artifacts, except occasionally intrusive interments and associated 

 objects. It is probable then that the Turkey creek mound also was of the domicil- 

 iary class and that the group of polished pendants of carved stone constituted a cache 

 put in for safe keeping, like the cache of beautiful "banner-stones" found by Mr. 

 Douglass in a mound near Tomoka creek, Volusia county, Florida. 2 



1 "Mound Investigation on the East Coast of Florida" etc., by Clarence B. Moore. Privately 

 printed, Philadelphia, 1896. 



2 " A Find of Ceremonial Weapons in a Florida Mound," etc. By A. E. Douglass. Proceed- 

 ings Am. Assoc. Adv. of Sci., Vol. XXI. 



