1892.] . Investigation at Tick Island. 577 
FRAGMENTS OF POTTERY SHAPED IN THE FORM OF 
SPEAR AND ARROW POINTS. 
Reference was made to this subject in my former paper. 
During the supplementary investigations many bits of 
pottery broken in triangular shapes, were found particularly 
with the burials in the lower sand layers. At least two frag- 
ments of pottery were found giving unmistakable evidence 
of the arrow-head shape having been conferred through 
design, the sides being chipped rudely to imitate the point of 
the arrow. Since the writing of my first paper I have secured 
so much evidence tending to show that the Indians of the 
earlier burial mounds substituted with their burials the imi- 
tation for the real in the way of arrow-heads and spear points 
that I regard the question as virtually settled. 
In the mound at Ginn’s Grove, south of Lake Monroe, the 
custom was very apparent; the great sand mound on Lake 
Winder emphasized the fact, while in the small burial mound 
discovered by me near Lake Poinsett nearly every piece of 
pottery was broken or chipped in the form I have described. 
IMPLEMENTS, ORNAMENTS, ETc. 
About three feet below the surface, not in association with 
any skeleton, a very beautiful polished celt 8} in. in length 
was brought to light. This implement cannot however be 
regarded as belonging to the period of the construction of the 
mound. 
Other objects of interest were:—a piece of coquina rudely 
fashioned in the form of a spear head; two flakes of flint; 
portion of “conch” shell; two pieces of madrepore ; shell 
implements of doubtful attribution; handful of shell beads 
with skeleton of child five feet below the apex of the mound. 
With the beads were a fragment of calcined bone and a flake 
of flint. Two feet distant was the claw of a large animal, 
probably a bear. On the shell base not far from the center of 
the mound were found a number of pieces of what Professor 
Putnam pronounces to be soft coal and furthermore states that 
