512 TWO SAND MOUNDS ON MURPHY ISLAND, FLORIDA. 



Loose in the sand was a cuboidal mass of carbonate of lime, with rounded 

 corners, about the size of an English walnut, while apparently unassociated was a 

 mass of undetermined rock about the same size, spheroidal, depressed at the poles. 

 A flat pebble of clayey material, about 2 inches by 4 inches, with a maximum 

 thickness of .8 of one inch, has four perforations apparently of natural formation 

 around twigs. These perforations, doubtless, the aborigines had been quick to 

 utilize. 



Two small pendants, one of crystalline granular rock, possibly of igneous 

 origin, the smaller of Agalmatolite, lay with human remains, 8 feet from the 

 surface, with a small shell chisel. Their shape is triangular and each has a counter- 

 sunk perforation for suspension. In addition, the 

 larger, 1.1 inches in length with a maximum width 

 of .6 of one inch and a thickness of .2 of one inch, 

 has a curved groove extending across one side (Figs. 

 63 and 64). 



Nine feet down, with human remains, was a 

 handsome banner stone of a crystalline rock in 

 which the silica projects while the felspathic material 

 is much decomposed — possibly a Granulyte. It is 

 laterally and longitudinally perforated. Two shoul- 

 ders with median grooves encircle it. A small portion 



is broken from one side. Length, 3.4 inches ; minimum diameter of shaft, .6 of one 

 inch ; maximum diameter of shaft, .8 of one inch ; diameter of smaller shoulder, 1 

 inch; of larger, 1.1 inches (Fig. 65). 



A graceful pendant of a crystalline granular rock, probably syenitic, came from 

 a depth of 5 feet with a "celt." Human remains were in association. At either 



Figs. 63 and 04. — Peudent ornaments. 

 Northernmost mound, Murphy 

 Island. (Full size.) 



Fig. 65. — Ceremonial of stone. Northernmost mound, Murphy Island. 

 (Full size.) 



end is a rim, while from one end is a small projection as shown in Fig. 66. Length 

 2.6 inches ; diameter of body, 1.3 inches ; diameter of larger rim, 1 inch ; of smaller 

 rim, .7 of one inch. 



A fusiform pendant, probably of steatitic material, grooved at one end for sus- 

 pension, strongly resembles in shape pendants of shell found by us in the mound 

 on Tick Island and figured in Part II of our Report. Length, 3.7 inches; maxi- 

 mum diameter, 1 inch (Fig. 67). 



