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Fig. 95.- 



-Section of grave. Mound near 

 Pearl Bayou. 



Mound near Pearl Bayou, Calhoun County. 

 Pearl bayou joins East bay, a pai't of St. Andrew's bay, on the south side about 

 5 miles from the entrance to East bay. The mound, as to whose ownership we are 

 in ignorance, is within sight of the water in a field formerly cultivated, but now 

 overgrown, about 1 mile in an easterly direction from Pearl bayou. 



The mound formed no exception to those of this district, having been dug into 

 in many places. It was 40 feet across the base and about 3.5 feet in height. It 



was completely dug 

 "'"'■'•-'<""' through by us with 



the exception of a 

 part of the western 

 portion, where dig- 

 ging was discontinued 

 after a large percent- 

 age had been gone 

 through without find- 

 ing burial or artifact. 

 Burials and numerous sherds were encountered 

 in the eastern margin. The burials which, later, 

 extended in a scattering way to the SE. and one 

 even so far as N., continued to be met with in great 

 numbers in the eastern part of the mound until the 

 center was reached, after Which none was found. 

 The marginal burials Avere closelj^ flexed on the 

 right side or on the left, but later such a mass of 

 bones was present that the form of burial was hard 

 to determine. Presumably, the burials were of the 

 flexed variety, overlapping and underh-ing each 

 other in greatest confusion. No skull was saved. 

 though some were sufficiently entire to allow deter- 

 mination as to cranial compression. This compres- 

 sion, plainly distinguishable in some, was much less 

 so in others, while certain ones showed no trace of it. 

 In the outer portion of the mound, especially, 

 though their presence was noted among the burials 

 farther in, were many small shallow graves into 

 which the burials had been forced. A number of 

 interments were covered wath oyster-shells. Under 

 a mass of burials with which were numbers of shell drinking cups, some perforated 

 as to the base and some not, was a grave containing a single skeleton, running beloAv 

 the base, filled with oyster-shells (Fig. 95). 



A feature in this mound was the number of shell drinking cups present, num- 

 bers being found together at times. 



Fig. 96. — Lancelieafl of cliert. Mound near 

 Pearl Bayou, (Full size.) 



