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two shell discs much smaller; a diamond-shaped section of the body whorl of a large 

 univalve; a pendant made from a marine columella, 5.5 inches in length ; a small 

 gouge of shell ; a heavy ornament of shell with two ends grooved for suspension 

 (Fig. 204), 4 inches long and 2 inches thick. With these objects were many bits 

 of stone and of shell of no particular interest. 



Another mortuary deposit consisted of: bits of shell ; a large columella worked 

 to a point; another, unworked ; one carefully ground to a cutting edge, which, how- 

 ever, is badly chipped ; a bit of volcanic rock, a part of an implement ; a chipped 

 pebble; three bits of sandstone; a small mass of hardened clay, seemingly; a small 

 part of a "celt" ; three sections of a columella, probably beads in block; a rectan- 

 gular piece of rock, 7 inches long ; parts of two under-jaws of small rodents ; a 

 pendant of shell of ordinary demijohn form ; a pendant of clam-shell, roughly tri- 

 angular in shape, grooved at one end for suspension ; five triangular gouges with 

 rounded lower corners made from the body whorl of Fulgur ; forty-three similar 

 implements with undressed sides and unground edges, the first step in the making of 

 a gouge, the nature of this latter deposit showing the aboriginal mind to be fully 

 alive to the fact that the departed would have ample leisure in the life to come. 



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Fig. 205. — Sherd. Mound near Green Point. 

 (Half size.) 



Fig. 206, — Slierd. Mound near Green Point. 

 (Tbree-fourtlas size.) 



Contrary to our usual experience, a general deposit of vessels was found on the 

 western side of this mound and another large deposit farther in on the same side, 

 while no other vessels were met with, except immediately with the dead, and these 

 w'ere well in toward the center. 



The earthenware of this mound, on an average, was distinctly inferior to any 

 we had met with so far on the coast. The vessels, when decorated, bore, as a ride, 

 the complicated stamp, often faintly and irregularly impressed. In Figs. 205, 206, 



