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Under two crania was sand made pink by admixture of hematite. With, or in 

 the immediate vicinity of, burials were : a shell drinking cup ; a well-made bead of 

 shell ; a number of blue glass beads and two bits of lookingglass ; a spear-head of 

 chert ; a large flake of the same material, doubtless used as a 

 knife ; a pebble hammer ; a smoothing stone, apparently of 

 lime rock ; a fossil shark's tooth over 4 inches in length, 

 considerably worked at the base, probably for hafting; 1 a 

 polished pendant of stone, minus a portion of the base ; a 

 stone pendant, badly broken; a pendant, probably of fine- 

 grained sandstone, 2 representing the head of a bird, of 

 which, unfortunately, most of the .bill is wanting (Fig. 3). 

 Pendants in the form of birds have frequently rewarded our 

 search in southern mounds. In a mound near Tavares, Lake 

 County, Florida, we found a bird amulet of igneous rock, the 

 head of which was wanting. 3 We have seen, described and 

 figured, 4 a beautiful pendant representing the head of a duck, 

 which came from the Turkey creek mound, among a cache of 

 other pendants, and is now in possession of Andrew E. Douglass, Esq., of the 

 American Museum of Natural History, New York. 



Throughout the mound were sherds mostly plain, though some bore incised, 

 and some punctate, markings. One had stamped decoration. 



About 400 yards E. by N. from the mound just described, in pine woods, is a 

 mound 3 feet high and 72 feet in diameter, the property of Mr. J. A. Darcey, living 

 nearby. A central excavation yielded neither burials nor artifacts. 



Indian Hill, Hillsboro County. 



About 3 miles down Tampa Bay from the mouth of the Little Manatee river 

 is an island known as Indian Hill, probably eight acres in extent, almost covered 

 by an aboriginal deposit of shells, including oyster, clam, conch {Fulgur), cockle 

 {Cardzum), Pecten, S trombus gigas, Strombus pugilis, Fasciolaria gigantea, Fas- 

 ciolaria tulipa. Part of the shell deposit is made of irregular mounds and ridges. 

 At one extremity, however, the deposit rises steeply, forming a great heap seemingly 

 composed of three mounds with depressions between. The circumference of base is 

 423 paces. The largest of these heaps has a height of 30 feet above the surrounding 

 shell deposit and 36 feet 7 inches above water level. We believe, after personal 

 inspection of the majority of Florida shell heaps and careful inquiry as to the rest, 



1 A shark's tooth similarly treated, was found by us in a mound on Ossabaw Island, Georgia, 

 and is described in our " Certain Aboriginal Mounds of the Georgia Coast." 



2 Theodore D. Band, Esq., of the Academy of Natural Sciences, has kindly identified all rocks 

 referred to in this Report. As we have not furnished Mr. Rand with sections of the specimens, the 

 determinations are not considered final by him. 



3 " Certain Sand Mounds of the Ocklawaha River, Fla.," Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Vol. X. 

 * "A Cache of Pendent Ornaments," p. 190, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Vol. XI. 



