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unlikely that this portion of a turkey leg and spur may have been used as a 

 decoration for the lobe of the ear. At the time of the occupation of the 

 mouth of the St. Johns by the French Protestants, in the third quarter of the 

 sixteenth century, it was customary for the aborigines to wear ornaments of 

 considerable size buttoned into or thrust through, the lobe of the ear. In Fig. 20 



we reproduce a portrait of an In- 

 dian warrior decorated with the 

 leg and claws of some large bird, 

 from Plate XIV of the " Brevis 

 Narratio." 1 The artist, Jaques 

 Le Moyne, was one of the few 

 survivors of the ill-fated garrison 

 of Fort Caroline, massacred in 

 time of peace by the Spaniards, 

 " not as Frenchmen, but as 

 Lutherans." Fort Caroline can- 

 uot have been much over one 

 league distant from the Shields 

 mound. 



COPPER. 



Considering 



the interesting 

 types in stone taken from the 

 Shields mound, one would look 

 for more varied forms in copper. 

 In addition to a number of frag- 

 ments of sheet copper five small 

 sheets of familiar type were taken 

 separately from various depths. 



A portion of a large undeeo- 

 rated ornament of sheet copper, 

 centrally perforated, 6.5 inches by 

 7 inches, lay near the surface. 

 With it were fragments of vege- 

 table fabric. 



A curiously shaped object of 

 wood with circular section, bent 

 somewhat at one end, has a pin 



fitted into it evidently to connect with a missing portion containing a socket. 



The wood has been overlaid with copper which remains at places. This fragment 



is too imperfect for identification. 



1 " Brevis Narratio,'" published by DeBry, Fraukfort-on-the-Main, 1591. 



Fie. 20. — Indian Warrior of Sixteenth Century. 



