THE ST. JOHN'S RIVER, FLORIDA. 



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Fig. 36- Axe of iron (half size). 

 less than 300 iron tomahawks were ploughed up in a field in Canada. 1 We have 

 met with them in Florida, also, at Dunn's Creek, at Raulerson's near Lake Harney 

 and at the Indian Fields on Lake Ruth. 



With intrusive burials were two small polished hatchets of stone and a small 

 '" sinker " or pendent ornament, grooved at one end for suspension, wrought from a 

 pebble. 



Precious Metals. — Superficially, with the skeleton of a woman, in close proximity 

 to a cervical vertebra, associated with beads of shell. Avas an ornament 

 of sheet gold, oblong in shape - 6 of an inch by "77 of an inch. Its 

 weight was 18 grains. Around the margin on one face were indenta- 

 tions, while a deeper and larger one occupied the center at the inter 



section of two diagonal lines. Near the center of the margin of one 

 Fig- 37. Ornament _ ° . ° « 



of gold (full size.) of the narrow sides was a perforation for suspension (Fig. 37): 



With a skeleton 6 inches from the surface, in close proximity to the cranium, 

 was an ornament of sheet silver. In shape it somewhat 

 resembled a crescent though the inner border lacked suf- 

 ficient concavity. Its length was L58 inches, its maxi- 

 mum breadth "72 of an inch. Its weight was 50 grains. 

 In the center was a lan>'e . indentation made by repeated 



Fig. 88. Ornament of silver . . , . . . , ' , . 



(full size). impact of a pointed implement. Around the margin 



were small indentations, of which three, perforate, doubtless served as means of 

 attachment to a band or a garment, It was greatly oxidized (Fig. 38). 



Pots and Effigies of Pottery. — It was reserved for the Thursby mound to 

 reward our labors by a find hitherto unreported, we believe, not alone in Florida 

 but in any part of the United States. In an oblong space, 6 feet in breadth and 

 about 25 feet in length, beginning 18 feet from the center of the summit plateau 

 on the southeastern slope and extending to the margin of the base, from 4 inches 

 to 1 foot below the surface was a deposit of pottery amazing in number and variety 

 of specimens, including pots, dishes, bowls, effigies of animals, of plants and of 



'.Annual Report Canadian Institute, 1867, page 11. 



