Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . ne. Northernmost mound, Murphy Island.(Full size.) end is a rim, while from one end is a small projection as shown in Fig. 66. inches ; diameter of body, inches; diameter of larger rim, 1 inch ; of smallerrim, .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 moundon Tick Island and figured in Part II of our Report. Length, inches; maxi-mum diameter, 1 inch (Fig. 67). TWO SAND MOUNDS ON MURPHY ISLAN
Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . ne. Northernmost mound, Murphy Island.(Full size.) end is a rim, while from one end is a small projection as shown in Fig. 66. inches ; diameter of body, inches; diameter of larger rim, 1 inch ; of smallerrim, .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 moundon Tick Island and figured in Part II of our Report. Length, inches; maxi-mum diameter, 1 inch (Fig. 67). TWO SAND MOUNDS ON MURPHY ISLAND, FLORIDA. 513 A curiously shaped pendant of steatitic rock, having a length of .9 of one inchand a maximum diameter of inches, lay with a burial 6 feet from the surface (Fig. 68). Two pendants of quartz were found separately in the mound. One, a roughfragment about 1 inch in length, is rudely grooved at one end. The other, acrystal, inches in length with a maximum diameter of .5 of one inch, is neatlygrooved and shows considerable wear (Fig. 69)..
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