MYER] THE FEWKES GROUP 607 
About half of these domestic pots held from 2 to 3 gallons. Frag- 
ments of several pots were found which held from 4 to 7 gallons and 
some larger vessels which held from 10 to 15 gallons. 
Fully two-thirds of the domestic vessels found on these two sites 
showed black smoke discolorations arising from fires over which they 
had been either suspended in some manner or supported by stones. 
These stones thus took the place of the modern pot leg. The frag- 
ments showed conclusively that the cooking in fully two-thirds of 
the round-bottom vessels was done by fires built underneath them. 
In a very few of the other round-bottom vessels the cooking may 
have been done by means of heated stones placed within. 
The large flat-bottom vessels showed no signs of fire-smoking under- 
neath, and. all these were beyond doubt used in stone-boiling; that 
is, heated stones were placed in their contents. This heated them 
very rapidly but did not add to the cleanly appearance of the cooked 
contents. 
The writer recalls a stone-boiling, probably derived from the 
Indians, which continued in Tennessee as late as 1876, in the annual 
fall hog killings. Water was placed in a large inclined wooden barrel 
or hogshead, or sometimes in wooden troughs. The stones, having 
been heated in great blazing piles of commingled wood and stones, 
were then taken singly, with an iron shovel, and placed in the water, 
which rapidly came to the boiling point. As the water became 
cooled, other heated stones were added and the cold ones removed. 
ANIMAL FOOD OF GORDON AND FEWKES PEOPLE 
Every fragment of bone found on the Gordon and Fewkes sites 
was preserved. “These were examined by Dr. G. S. Miller, Curator 
of the Division of Mammals, United States National Museum. He 
found the proportions of animal food represented by these bones to 
be about as follows: 
Animal Per cent 
Virginia deer (no bones of elk, moose, or bison)_~-..----------------- 85 
lol tid: \ ne an ae 2. Se ee 10 
Box turtle, snapping turtle, black bear, raccoon, skunk, gray fox, fox 
squirrel, cottontail rabbit, small birds, fish__..........------------- 
Only one fresh-water drum fish, two fresh-water suckers, and one 
other fish were found in the two groups. A very few mussel shells 
and not over a dozen periwinkle shells were found on both sites, 
outside of the graves. 
The proportion and character of the animal food was practically 
the same in both the Gordon site and the Fewkes group. 
