CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS OF THE GEORGIA COAST. 



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shown in Fig. 5 ; or with an encircling band impressed at intervals (Fig. 6). The 

 decoration of the body and neck of these vessels is usually a complicated stamped 

 pattern so well known in Georgia and in Carolina. 



One of these burial jars (various forms were used for cremated remains) is 

 shown in Plate IX. 



The late Col. C. C. Jones describes four similar vessels, all containing infant 



Fig. 6.— Sherd showing band with impressions. (Full size.) 



remains, as coming from mounds of the Georgia coast. 1 We shall not again go into 

 a detailed description of this form of vessel, but shall refer to it as the common, 

 or ordinary type. 



The reader will observe that considerable care has been taken in referring to, 

 or in describing, vessels of shell or of earthenware, to note whether or not they 

 were imperforate as to the base. This, it may be well to explain to some, has 

 been done in reference to a custom obtaining to a considerable extent in Florida 

 where vessels placed with the dead often had the bottom knocked out, the base 

 perforated, or a hole made in the base at the time of manufacture, presumably " to 

 kill" the vessel to free its soul to accompany that of the dead person. This curious 

 custom has been regarded as peculiar to Florida, but it is interesting to note a pos- 

 sible observance of it to a limited extent in the mounds of the Georgia coast. It is 

 well to note, however, that in cinerary urns, perforation of base is never met with. 



Mounds Investigated. 



Fairview, Camden County (2). 

 Woodbine, Camden County. 

 Owen's Ferry, Camden County. 

 Brunswick, Glynn County (2). 

 Lawton's Field, Darien, Mcintosh Co. (3). 

 Townsend Mound, Darien, Mcintosh Co. 

 Cat Head Creek, Darien, Mcintosh Co. 

 "The Thicket," Mcintosh County (6). 

 Shell Bluff, Mcintosh County. 

 Creighton Island, Mcintosh County (2). 

 Hopkins Mound, Belleville, Mcintosh Co. 

 1 "Antiquities of the Southern Indians," p. ■ 



Crescent, Mcintosh County. 

 Walker Mound, Mcintosh County. 

 Contentment, Mcintosh County. 

 Broro Neck, Mcintosh County (2). 

 Sapelo Island, Mcintosh County (3). 

 Bahama, Mcintosh County (2). 

 Laurel View, Mcintosh County (2). 

 St. Catherine's Island, Liberty Co. (7). 

 Ossabaw Island, Bryan County (9). 

 Skiddaway Island, Chatham County (3). 



