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obscure mound on the lower Savannah is indeed reinarkalile. Excel- 

 lent examples of the pottery of the South, the Southwest, and the West 

 are thus found within lOd miles of the Atlantic sealioard. Not the 

 least interesting)- feature of this find was the occurrence of part of 

 an old-fashioned English iron drawing knife and some wrought-iron 

 nails, associated, according to the report of Mr Reynolds, with the 

 various articles of clav, stone, and copper in the mound, thus apparentlj' 

 showing that the mound was built and that all the varieties of wari^ were 

 made or assembled by a single connnunity in post-Columbian times. 



Mr Re3'nolds was tirm in his ]>eli('f that these vases and the diverse 

 articles referred to were associated in the original interments in the 

 mound, yet many will feel like questioning this conclusion. ]f a mis- 

 take was made by the explorer with respect to this point, the interest 

 in the series is hardly lessened. If he is right, the mound was built 

 by a post-ColumV)ian community composed of distinct groups of people 

 still practicing to some extent their appropriate arts, or by members 

 of a single group which, by association, capture, or otherwise, had 

 brought together artisans from distinct nations, or had from various 

 available sources secured the heterogeneous group of objects of art 

 assembled. If he is wrong, we are free to assume that the original 

 stock which practiced the ordinary arts of the Appalachian province 

 had built the mound and deposited examples of their work: that, at a 

 later period, they had acquired and used exotic artifacts in burial in the 

 same mound, or, that the mound was, after the coming of the whites, 

 adopted by a distinct people who there buried their dead, together 

 with articles of their own and of European manufacture. In such a 

 case it would be reasonable to suppose that the earlier people were of 

 jVIuskhogean or Uchean stock, and that the latter Mere the Savannahs 

 or Shawnees. The report of Mr Reynolds on the opening of this 

 remarkable mound is embodied in the work of Dr Thomas in the 

 Twelfth Animal R(>port of the Bureau of Ethnology. A number of 

 claj' pipes obtained from this mound are shown in plate cxxn'. They 

 are of forms prevalent in the genei-al region. 



The extension of typical Appalachian wares eastward toward the 

 coast of North and South Carolina and Georgia is made manifest by 

 recent researches of jNIr Clarence B. Moore. From a mound in Mcin- 

 tosh county, (xeorgia, Mr Moore obtained the remarkalile bowl shown 

 in plate cxx, and a second specimen nearly duplicating it. It is quite 

 eccentric in shape, as is well shown l)y contrasting the end view, «, 

 with the side views, h and c'. The color is tiuite dark, and the surface 

 well polished. It is embellished with engraved figures in lines, and 

 excavated spaces covering nearly the entire surface. The scroll bor- 

 der al)ove is somewhat irregularly placed, and encii'cles, at opposite 

 sides, a little node, the only modeled feature of the vase. The design, 

 drawn at full length, is shown in plate cxix />, and is apparently a 



