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the members of the Creek Confederacy, as reported by several 

 travelers about 1750 or later. 



In Site No. 19, of the 49 burials above the town house floor, 2, and 

 perhaps 3, were of the sitting-posture pit type of burial and quite 

 similar to those found at Site No. 10, Mound No. 2. 



As previously referred to under Site No. 10, Bushnell 2 regards 

 the custom of placing strips of wood or bark over and under the body 

 at time of burial as a custom common to the Creeks. Of this he says : 



It is possible within this same region to trace another custom from historic 

 back into prehistoric times, and whenever this may be done it tends to make 

 more clear the customs of the inhabitants of ancient America at the time of the 

 coming of Europeans. 



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About the year 1730 a small group of Creeks, together with a few Yamasee, all 

 belonging to the same linguistic family, settled on the south or right bank of the 

 Savannah, at a place now known as Yamacraw Bluff, within the limits of the 

 present city of Savannah. Their chief was the famous Tomochichi, who, to- 

 gether with others, later accompanied Governor Oglethorpe to England. While 

 there during the year 1734 a member of the party died, and "previous to inter- 

 ment in the churchyard of St. John's, Westminster, the body was sewn up in a 

 blanket and bound between two boards." (Jones.) It was placed in a grave, 

 together with many ornaments and other objects. Moore drew attention to the 

 occurrence when describing burials encountered by him in a mound on Creighton 

 Island, Mcintosh County, Ga., only a short distance south of Savannah, and 

 consequently not far from the former village of Yamacraw Bluff. He remarked 



3 Bushnell, 1920, p. 114. In this section, Bushnell refers to Moore, Clarence B., Cer- 

 tain Aboriginal Mounds of the Georgia Coast, p. 30 ; and to Jones, Charles C, Jr., 

 Antiquities of the Southern Indians, pp. 185-187. 



