Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . Fig. 16.—Tobacco pipe of soapstone. Shields mound.(Full size.) Section of Fig. 17.(Full size.). Fig. 17.—Weapon of chipped chert. Shields mound.(Full size.) 58 JOURN. A. N. S. VOL. X. 464 CERTAIN RIVER MOUNDS OF DUYAL COUNTY, FLORIDA. Miscellaneous.—Two and one-half .feet from the surface, in a mass of crimsonpigment, with human remains, was a double pointed implement—possibly a weapon—of chipped chert, about seven inches in length with a maximum thickness of .8of one inch. The section is triangular. The cut fails clearly to
Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . Fig. 16.—Tobacco pipe of soapstone. Shields mound.(Full size.) Section of Fig. 17.(Full size.). Fig. 17.—Weapon of chipped chert. Shields mound.(Full size.) 58 JOURN. A. N. S. VOL. X. 464 CERTAIN RIVER MOUNDS OF DUYAL COUNTY, FLORIDA. Miscellaneous.—Two and one-half .feet from the surface, in a mass of crimsonpigment, with human remains, was a double pointed implement—possibly a weapon—of chipped chert, about seven inches in length with a maximum thickness of .8of one inch. The section is triangular. The cut fails clearly to represent the twosides of the triangle. This type, so far as our experience extends, has not heretoforebeen discovered in Florida mounds (Fig. 17). Together, with human remains, feet from the surface, were: a leaf-shapedimplement of chipped chert, one end unfortunately missing, with a length of , and a maximum thickness of about .4 of one inch; a portion of a dagger or lance head about inches in length, probably of crystalinesandstone; a sandstone hone, and a part of the lower jaw ofa bear. One implement of chert was rudely c
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