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Fig. G represents a little jewel-box lid or bottom, of hard, dark brown 

 wood, eight inches in length, by four in width. The ends were rabbetted 

 and drilled for attachment (with sinew and black gum, traces of which 

 remained), to the ends of the box, and the ends themselves were in jux- 

 taposition. Each end was four inches long and of corresponding width, 

 and painted lengthwise on the outside, with double mythic tie-cords and 

 shell-clasp figures. The bottom and the other parts were missing, save 

 for fragments. With these fragments, however, were some of the 

 most superb ear jewels and plugs, shell beads and pearls, among all 

 our findings. Curiously enough, the remarkable outline of a horned 

 crocodile, painted on this little lid as here shown, occured on the inside, 

 and this plainly indicates the sacred nature of the box and its contents. 

 It is of interest to note that the horned crocodile (or alligator) was seen 

 by William Bartram, painted on the facades of the great sacred houses 

 of the Creek Indians, when he visited their chief towns more than a 

 hundred years ago. 



This specimen was found by Hudson and myself, with the ceremonial 

 pack and painted shell descilbed on pp. 385, 386, — in section 40 (Plate 

 XXXI). 



Fig. 7 represents a stool— described, with others of its kind, on p. 

 363. It is seventeen inches in length, between six and seven inches in 

 width, and at one end, five, at the other end, six inches high. It was 

 blocked out with shell adzes — as shown by traces of hacking still visible 

 on its under side, then finished with shark tooth knives, — from a piece 

 of hard, yellowish wood, probably buttonwood. It was found by 

 Clark, — in section 31. 



I would call attention to the fact that it is sloped, or higher at one 

 end than at the other. This indicates that it was designed for use ((stride, 

 so to say, as is also indicated in other, even unsloped specimens, bj' 

 the slant of the pegs or feet, which adapted some of these stools for use in 

 canoes, lengthwise, but not crosswise. It is well known that the Antil- 

 leans, whose stools, while far more elaborate than those we found, were 

 not unlike them in style, had a fashion of sitting astride or lengthwise 

 of them. While this may, with many other points, signify connection, 

 it far more certainly signifies that this curious way of sitting was 

 established by the use of long stools in narrow canoes, and possibly 

 also, by use of the sitting-hammock. 



