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met with infrequently enough any\Yhere, but in the southern United States this 

 barbed hook must be almost unique. 



Another fish-hook, probabh" similar to this one, came from elsewhere in the 

 mound. Unfortunately, the point of the hook was broken in removal, and the most 

 careful search failed to recover it. 



In Fig. 95 is shown an implement of bone, proba- 

 bly a fish-hook of another variety, found with the fish- 

 hook first described. 



Fig. 9.5.— Object of bone, probably fish- This swamp-mouud, under Water in times of freshet, 



oT'^buUsizlr'"''^''''""'''^"'" was somewhat above water-level at the period of our 



visit. Burial No. 19, consisting of a few fragments 

 of badly decayed bone, lay in a distinctly marked pit, below the base, whei'e the 

 dark-brown, claj-ey sand of that part of the mound extended into the coarse, 

 yellow sand considerably below the water level. With the bones, and extracted 

 with great difficulty, owing to the rapid filling of the pit with water, were : two 

 vessels of earthenware, one badly broken; a disc of sheet-brass, about 4.5 inches 

 in diameter, without decoration, having two holes for suspension, about .75 of an 

 inch apart, near the margin ; a disc of sheet-brass, nearl}^ 8 inches in diameter, also 

 undecorated, having a small hole in the center for attachment. 



This disc, which was somewhat broken in removal, still showed traces of fiber 

 in which it had been wrapped, as did the other disc. Also with these objects were 

 three glass beads ; doubtless many others were left at the bottom of the pit, since 

 the removal of objects so small, when one is working at arm's-length under water, 

 is a difficult matter. 



Burial No. 25, a few bones, lay also in a pit, under water, below the base of 

 the mound. With them were shell beads and a stone •' celt.'' 



Burial No. 30, two skulls, had with it a Fulgur perversum, 15.2 inclies in 

 length, the largest shell of this variety of which we have been able to learn. 



With Burial No. 32, bones which fell with caved sand, was a circular ornament 

 of sheet-brass, 4.5 inches in diameter, slightly concavo-convex, without decoration, 

 with a central perforation, somewhat broken, bearing traces of fiber, like the others. 



Burial No. 41, a bunch, lay in a pit with Vessels Nos. 48 and 49. 



Burial No. 42, the skull of a child, had with it fragments of an undecorated 

 disc of sheet-brass. 



Unassociated were : three pebbles ; one sandstone hone ; several flakes of chert, 

 with cutting edge on one side. There were also many objects of shell, such as we 

 have described as present with burials. These objects, in all probability, though 

 not found with bones, had been with them before disturbance by recent diggers. 



Twenty-four "celts" of various rocks, from 2.6 inches to 9.8 inches in length, 

 many with ends gracefully tapering opposite the cutting edge, were present in the 

 mound, some with burials as we have stated, many alone. Certain of these lay in 

 the very margin of the mound and evidentlj^ had been placed there ceremonially, 

 since burials were not met with until farther in. 



