32 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS OF THE GEORGIA COAST. 



arrived at by dividing the lateral into the fore and aft diameter. A tibia of the 

 same skeleton has an index of 51 ; that is, its lateral diameter is about half of its 

 fore and aft diameter. One of these femurs and the tibia were sent to the Army 

 Medical Museum, Washington. It may interest the lay reader to know that the 

 lateral flattening of the tibia and marked development of the linea aspera of the 

 femur are now known to be the result of muscular action as in walking, running, 

 ascending slopes and the like and not racial characteristics. 



Calcined Remains. — The majority of the 10 pockets of calcined human bones 

 were of moderate size, representing in each instance the remains of one individual. 

 Several, however, were considerable layers and contained in addition numbers of 

 loose bones unaffected by fire. 



Urn-burials. — Under perfectly level ground, a considerable distance from the 

 slope of the mound, was a vessel of the ordinary type with base perforation (A), 

 upright and capped by an imperforate vessel of the same type, inverted and with- 

 out a rim (B). Within the upright vessel were the remains of the skeleton of an 

 infant of about 2 years of age. These vessels, both badly crushed, were sent to the 

 Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., where they have been carefully pieced together. 



Near the others was a vessel of the same type, a portion of whose bottom was 

 broken, but held in place by sand. It was otherwise intact. In the sand, within 

 the vessel, were particles of bone resembling sawdust, and a portion of the tooth of 

 an infant. This vessel (C) was sent to the Field Columbian Museum, Chicago. 



Forty-eight feet E. by S. from the point taken as the center of the mound, was 

 a vessel (D) of the ordinary type, imperforate as to the base, 21.5 inches in height, 

 the maximum ever reported for this type, and having a diameter of mouth of 18.5 

 inches and a maximum diameter of body of 15 inches. A portion of the rim had 

 been ploughed away and lost. Near the base were certain bones of an infant, 

 judging from the femur. No teeth were present. 



Vessel E, of the ordinary type, badly broken by the plow, had a circular 

 piece crushed in, but not removed from the base. It was capped by a decorated 

 bowl (F) crushed to fragments, some of which were held in place by the sand. 

 This vessel has not been included in our list of urn-burials, as the most careful 

 search failed to reveal the slightest trace of skeletal remains ; but beyond question, 

 such remains had occupied the urn at an earlier period. 



Vessel G had been a bowl of about 4 gallons capacity, with marginal incised 

 decoration surmounting the complicated stamp. Parts had been crushed and car- 

 ried away by the plow. Beneath it was charcoal. Within it were fragmentary 

 bones of an infant. 



Vessel H, imperforate, of the ordinary type, rested upon decayed wood. It 

 contained fragmeuts of bones of a very young infant. Above the body of the 

 vessel, whose rim had been carried away by the plow, were large fragments of 

 earthenware, perhaps the remainder of a surmounting vessel. 



Vessel I was represented by the lower portion of the body of a vessel of the ordin- 

 ary type with base perforation.- It contained fragments of diminutive human bones. 



