7S 



CERTAIN SAND MOUNDS OF 



Fig. 76. Fish (full size). 



Fig. 



Fish (full size). 



Dr. Dall regards it as presumable that the coyote has been domesticated along 

 our southern border from time immemorial, though perhaps as an occasional curi- 

 osity in many tribes rather than as a usual companion. During nine years' explor- 

 ation he found one dog's skull in an Aleutian shell heap, a prehistoric deposit, and 

 only one.' 



The dog has never yet been found fossil in Florida, though the fossil fauna of 

 the State would suggest its presence. 2 



The late Colonel Jones,' 1 referring to the Florida Indians as represented by Le 

 Moyne, 4 speaks of u the flesh of fishes, deer, alligators, snakes, dogs and other ani- 

 mals previously smoked and dried on a scaffold." 



As we have stated, the dog is omitted from the list of animals seen by the 

 French, nor is it referred to in any description of the plates. Colonel Jones' state- 

 ment, therefore, is based upon no authority beyond a resemblance noticed' in cer- 

 tain animals represented in the plates. It would be difficult in the work of Le 

 Moyne to distinguish a dog from a grey wolf, or from some other quadrupeds of 

 Florida, especially as the carcass represented is skinned. 



Fig. 79. Ear of corn (full size) 



l W. H. Dall, private letter.' 



2 Cope 



a Op. cit.,page V>. 



*Brevis Narratio, plates XXII, XX Til, XXIV. 



Fig. 81. Unidentified (full size.) 



