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decayed as a rule; bitumen, iu one instance; plumbago; and the quota of hones, 

 hammer-stones, smoothing-stones, pebble-hammers, usually present in mounds. 



With a number of artifacts fallen in caved sand and probably at one time asso- 

 ciated with a burial, were three jaws of small rodents, also two parts of a lower jaw 

 of a deer, with the base cut awaj' to leave a flat surface (Fig. 179). 



We three times found jaws of large carnivores treated this way, in mounds of 

 the Georgia coast and suggested in our report^ that they had been thus treated to 

 facilitate insertion into wooden masks. 



Mr. Gushing at Marco found ••'certain split bear and wolf jaws neatly cut off" - 

 so as to leave the canines and two bicuspids standing. On the jaws were traces of 

 cement. Mr. Gushing believed these jaws to have been let into war-clubs, which 

 may well have been the case with teeth of large carnivores, but hardly so where 

 jaws of deer were used. 



Mr. Moorehead found in Ohio mounds human jaws treated in the waj' we have 

 described, some with perforations in addition, and regards them as ornaments.^ 



From all this, the reader has doubtless come to the conclusion, and rightly, that 

 the use made of these curiously treated jaws is still an open question. 



A feature often noticed in the mounds, namel}- the tendency to place with the 

 dead objects no longer of use to the living, was illustrated in this mound by the 

 finding with a burial, of eight arrow- and lance-points, five of chert, three of quartzite. 

 Of these, five wanted either a shank or a barb ; of the remaining three, two 

 were in the rough. 



In caved sand was part of an ornament of sheet copper. 



Broken into several parts by palmetto roots which had penetrated it, was a 

 curious object of impure kaolin,* almost cylindrical, with a certain rounded enlarge- 

 ment at either end. This object, which is 11 inches long and has a middle diame- 

 ter of 2.5 inches and of 3 inches at either end, had been carefully smoothed at one 

 time and still, in places, shows traces of decoration in low relief A similar object, 

 found in a much better state of preservation, will be figured and described in our 

 account of Mound B, Warrior river. 



Including with whole vessels those which were broken but had full complement 

 of parts, and others from which but small parts were missing, ninety vessels came 

 from this mound. The ware was most inferior, as a rule; the decoration poor in 

 design and rudely executed. Undecorated vessels predominated and, as a rule, 

 when decoration had been attempted, it consisted of the complicated stamp, usually 

 rudely and irregularly applied. The use of this form of decoration, even when care, 

 fully executed, is always unfortunate in a mound, since it is likelj' to take the place 

 of incised design which calls for greater originality. Farthermore, many of the ves- 

 sels with complicated stamp were not covered as to the entire body, but had only a 



' "Certain Aboriginal Mounds of the Georgia Coast," pp. 6-5, 88, 112. Joiirn. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila. Vol. XI. 



' Proc. Am. Philosoph. See. Vol. XXXV, No. 153, pg. 45. Phila., 1897. 

 ■' " Primitive Man in Ohio," pg. 226, et seq. 

 * Kafilin is found in Florida. 



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