Show unearth big indian mounds in florida interesting objects found in shell heaps Washl washington gt D dr 3 wait walter fewker camf ot of the b bureau 4 of Arner american fear ethnology thad this maken institution in has baa returned from an a geological tri trip p to s southwestern C to florida pl oaldo where when he was use the guest 0 B M elliott ilott of lt A ht 41 petersburg it pla who la greatly interested 1 in the people of the shell uge age who D tote left many mounds or kitchen mildena in that wan tate on do chu this trip an am examination all was mode ad ot at the h largest mound at weed inear en an a is job d near st petersburg burg supposed do 1 by note boine to have hem been the sit site of 1 the landing inciting of do de soto set aad ad awas A was in I 1 the sixteenth century excavations were w a begun be on an the mounds uila on this 1 island bad find and a trench six 11 feet wide was lug dug into the heart of the atoe main mound this thi work Is still I 1 in p progress sess among the jobje objects to resulting 1 I from these excavations are an shell dippers aeilts celts ornaments charm stones atones trag crag dents or of crude potter and a mr let lar stone ste tor for grinding mom the last flamed P ciann atoo in that the shell people were agriculturists as well as fish bocale 8 mound mad Is one A of the largest on the mast coast of tampa 6 bay the most important or ant of the U group ap th of mounds sum surrounding n ing B I 1 large g na natural tu lagoon A smaller ZAL Z lagoon AL P possibly ady a artificial and probably constructed tc as harbor for far canoes 1 la found near the he hben net heap A trip was sea mide along the I 1 coast t from lampa lacapa bay south to the primitive fishel fishing g village near cut porpoise print point the settlement ties lias been beco for many re bews yews isolated from the world but mr elliott has be recently built th them I a and will provide a hand teacher as the children of the settle went ment he have never tied had the advantage it logo of A an education and man many am of the young men in and ad women an cire are unable ble t to A read end and ad write among amo ng other places examined on aw this a southern trip were large shell hanpa at charlotte both harbor suit and at 1 abs near which requard remarkable ble ex ei were bade ad 1 sederal I years year ago 9 ly by frank I 1 H cushing ot of the bureau of mf american the locality where these enesi th a were made be lias now bet been filled blind I 1 in with shells team froni the mound which formerly existed on an key marco M rm and nothing rea radul mi el rapt a small 11 ditch or ft ahm type of indiana indian the th ras at Hs horra island app opposite camarota Cama roba which has be been put pur chased by mr lillet as a aft site for far a tropical garden and for or scientific work on its numerous 5 shell heaps are am very large the Is least set known knon of all florida shell heaps a examined are am sit bated red war near porpoise point doubt their site elte bring being wholly cone concealed a and as one approaches V pro rug aches halle fr from the gulfs eulf but the lux briant ar growth a win of mang mangroves man groves roles th the an SUP faces of these shell hears heaps revealed several interesting specimens and ad trial excavations va timas were ter very promising thres wt of a limited extent coal were also in made st flit lo 10 Ioas mana n a key where uain them a are goi go I large hall heaps TIM results result of at the work I 1 in heated that anat although althou ali adde ide work be has ban ii done in southern southam florida by arch 1 I ai ft 1 la sit stall 1 a 4 field which hlll ut rap repay ex investigation and study I 1 a to are am evidence in sou thorle I 1 florida of 0 three then distinct types of in discs firt and oldest those who re tied lied wholly upon earn ea fish as an food the Cro majority jeely of the implements being me made abo a from rom the large shells which are so an abundant adent la in that raglan fallow following tog theae bethe beme indians of at the historic epoch who was are possibly descendants de d 0 ot of the called colo indiana indian while the collections made ads by sir ashl cushing 9 at ky key memo marco would seem earn TO 1 daral an affinity with the west hodd indian cultures do possibly y skin akin to the e colony y in florida 1 I d reported by early SP spanish w waltera it re a |