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Arrow and lance points. — Fourteen lance heads and arrow points were found, 

 of quartz, of chert, and of chalcedony. No lance head exceeded 4.5 inches in 

 length. One had a breadth across the base of 2.7 inches. An interesting deposit 

 of six spike-shaped arrowheads, ranging in length between 1.6 inches and 3.1 

 inches, were together with a burial. 



Miscellaneous. — Throughout the mound were numerous pebble-hammers, 4 

 lying with one burial. 



One pebble, about 3 inches in length, showed a considerable percentage of loss 

 through use as a smoother or polisher. Several other smoothing stones were 

 variously associated. 



Several small fragments of soapstone vessels, without any particular shape, had 

 been deposited with the dead. One had a cross hatch decoration. 



Two nests of quartz pebbles each about the size of a pea, lay with human 

 remains. These doubtless formed parts of rattles, the covering having disappeared 

 through decay. 



SHELL. 



In no mound in Georgia or in Florida, investigated by us, have shell beads in 

 any way approached in number those present in the Creighton Island mound, nor 

 have we elsewhere found so large a percentage of burials associated with beads. 



Fig. 17. — Gorget of shell. Mound north end of Creighton Island. (Full size.) 



With thirty interments were large beads of shell, while small ones were present 

 with twenty-eight. Certain burials, however, having large and small beads are 

 included in both enumerations. Exclusive of great quantities of small beads of 

 shell of the ordinary pattern, there were present in the mound many hundreds of 

 massive beads having a length of nearly two inches or less. With one skeleton 

 were 63 massive beads, while in a layer of calcined remains, in addition to almost 

 innumerable small beads, were 267 having a diameter of half an inch and upwards. 



