. Bulletin. Ethnology. From a mound; ORANGE Co., Florida, (kunz) copper pendant was found retaining traces of a thin plating of gold, and bits of the filmy sheet were also found in the debris (Putnam). This plating with thin sheet gold is suggestive of well-known Mexican work, and along with other ev- idence obtained from mounds in Ross CO., Ohio, tends to strengthen the belief that the mound-builders of this region had more or less indirect in- tercourse with the people of central Mexico. Some rudely shaped and perforated gold beads were found in one of the Etowah mounds in Georgia (Jones), a
. Bulletin. Ethnology. From a mound; ORANGE Co., Florida, (kunz) copper pendant was found retaining traces of a thin plating of gold, and bits of the filmy sheet were also found in the debris (Putnam). This plating with thin sheet gold is suggestive of well-known Mexican work, and along with other ev- idence obtained from mounds in Ross CO., Ohio, tends to strengthen the belief that the mound-builders of this region had more or less indirect in- tercourse with the people of central Mexico. Some rudely shaped and perforated gold beads were found in one of the Etowah mounds in Georgia (Jones), and finds of slight importance are reported from other localities. The most interesting objects of gold found in connection with native remains come from Florida, and several of these have been published by Kunz. One of the specimens described was obtained from a mound in Orange co.—a flat rectangular pendant notched at the upper end for the attachment of a cord. It was associated with a human skel- eton, and had been worn as a pendant in connection with a necklace of glass beads. Its weight is 7n^ dwts. A second specimen is a pendant orna- ment 2| in. in length and nearly 1 in. wide, and weigh- ing 61J dwts. It is convex on one face and fiat on the other, and is grooved at the upper end for the attachment of a cord. A third specimen is a disk of thin sheet gold, 3^ in. in diameter and weighing 19 dwts., with repous.«e embellishment about the edge and a circular boss at the center. It was found in a mound in Orange co., and in ap- pearance closely resembles gold ornaments found in large numbers in the Isthmian region. A fourth specimen, also from anOrange ,isaplain disk of thin metal nearly 2^ in. in di- ameter and having a central perfora- tion. A very in- teresting object of gold, or rather of gold-silver alloy, w^as obtained from a mound in Manatee CO., s. Fla., and is described by Ran. It is cut from a piece of thin gold plate, and graphically represents the head
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