482 CERTAIN RIVER MOUNDS OF DUVAL COUNTY, FLORIDA. 



A pear-shaped pendant of quartz, grooved at the neck for suspension, about 2 

 inches in length, has a maximum diameter of about 1.6 inches. 



Tubes. — During the excavation several tubes of sandstone and of coquina, 

 were met with. In addition, six curious natural formations, such as we have 

 referred to in our account of the Shields mound, were recovered separately. 



Miscellaneous. — Several sandstone hones and a few loose pebbles and chips of 



Fig. 32. — Tobacco pipe of sandstone. Grant mound. 



(Full size.) 



Fig. 33.— Tobacco pipe of sandstone. Grant mound 

 (Full size.) 



chert were encountered separately. Mica was noted but twice, in each case thin 

 sheets perforated for attachment. Fifteen masses of galena, some about one-half 

 the size of the closed hand, came from various depths. 



BONE. 



A feature of the Grant mound was the great quantitj' of bone piercing imple- 

 ments and pins interred with human remains, sometimes a considerable number at 

 one spot. Most, in a very fragmentary condition, were not preserved. None 

 showed unusual or artistic forms. Fig. 35 represents a fragment with incised 

 decoration. A considerable number, entire or but slightly fragmentary, are pre- 

 served in our collection with all the contents of the St. Johns and Ocklawaha 

 River mounds at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 



COPPER. 



The yield of copper from the Grant mound was somewhat disappointing, 

 being, as a rule, a repetition on no very large scale ' of the usual types of orna- 

 ments of sheet copper and of other materials overlaid with sheet copper. 



