Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . though determi-nation is impossible—with the core of a spur. It is not 1 Tarso-Metatarsal. Fig. 18. Fig. 19. Portions of bone pins. Shields mound. (Full size.) CERTAIN RIVER MOUNDS OF DUVAL COUNTY. FLORIDA. 465 unlikely that this portion of a turkey leg and spur may have been used as adecoration for the lobe of the ear. At the time of the occupation of themouth of the St. Johns by the French Protestants, in the third quarter of thesixteenth century, it was customary for the aborigines to wear ornaments ofconsiderable size buttoned in
Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . though determi-nation is impossible—with the core of a spur. It is not 1 Tarso-Metatarsal. Fig. 18. Fig. 19. Portions of bone pins. Shields mound. (Full size.) CERTAIN RIVER MOUNDS OF DUVAL COUNTY. FLORIDA. 465 unlikely that this portion of a turkey leg and spur may have been used as adecoration for the lobe of the ear. At the time of the occupation of themouth of the St. Johns by the French Protestants, in the third quarter of thesixteenth century, it was customary for the aborigines to wear ornaments ofconsiderable size buttoned into or thrust through, the lobe of the ear. In Fig. 20 we reproduce a portrait of an In-dian warrior decorated with theleg and claws of some large bird,from Plate XIV of the The artist, JaquesLe Moyne, was one of the fewsurvivors of the ill-fated garrisonof Fort Caroline, massacred intime of peace by the Spaniards, not as Frenchmen, but asLutherans. Fort Caroline can-uot have been much over oneleague distant from the Shieldsmound. Considering the interestingtypes in stone taken from theShields mound, one would lookfor more varied forms in addition to a number of frag-ments of sheet copper five smallsheets of familiar type were takenseparately from various depths. A portion of a large undeeo-rated ornament of sheet copper,centrally perforated, inches by7 inches, lay near the it were fragments of vege-table fabric. A curiously shaped object ofwood with circular section, bentsomewhat at one end, has a pin fitted into it evidently to connect with a missing portion containing a socket. The wood has been overlaid with copper which remains at places. This fragment is too imperfect for identification. 1 Brevis Narratio, published by DeBry, Fraukfort-on-the-Main, 1591. Fie. 20.—Indian Warrior of Sixteenth Century. 466 CERTAIN RIVER MOUNDS OF DUVAL COUNTY, FLORIDA. A handsome double-pointed pin or piercing implement, a fraction over
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