376 CERTAIN ANTIQUITIES OF THE FLORIDA WEST-COAST. 



where on the southwestern coast of Florida, or, we think, have been described by 

 others as coming from there. 



The heads show considerable excellence of design and workmanship, and far 

 exceed, in these respects, any bird-head handles met with by us in other parts of 

 Florida, with one exception. 



Mr. S. T. Walker, in the Smithsonian Report for the year 1883, describes and 

 figures certain earthenware bird-heads from Florida, but these came from the 

 extreme northwestern coast of that State, not far from the Alabama line, and, 

 moreover, are of little artistic excellence. 



In the mound at Ginn's Grove, St. Johns river, Orange County, we found a 

 beautifully painted and incised head of a predatory bird, 1 which Professor Holmes 

 describes in his " Earthenware of Florida." 2 



Fig. 20.— Earthenware head of t 

 Goodland Point. (Full s 



Elsewhere on the St. Johns we have found bird-head handles of vessels, but 

 these others were rude in character. 



It is interesting to note a groove cut around the base of the neck of the 

 predatory bird, showing that, after the separation from the vessel, the head was 

 used as a pendant. 



Blue Hill, on Horr's Island, about one mile S. W. from Goodland Point, has a 



1 " Certain Sand Mounds of the St. Johns river, Florida." Part I, p. 87. Plate XV, Fig. 4. 



2 Page 124, Journ. Acad. Nat, Sci. Phila., Vol. X. 



