36 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS OF THE GEORGIA COAST. 



None of these beads shows trace of fire. Many were large sections of columellas 

 probably belonging to Fulgur. Others were flat, circular or oval and pierced through 

 their greatest diameter, sometimes a perforation 1.3 inches in length. Beads of 

 this character were known as runtees and were highly esteemed by the aborigines. 



Many skeletons in the mound had twenty or thirty massive beads each, often 

 on the wrists and ankles, and some were so loaded that the mere weight must have 

 been an inconvenience if thus worn in life. 



Drinking cups. — Twenty-two shell drinking cups were present in the mound, 

 some inverted, upon crania. All were imperforate. (The northernmost occur- 

 rence of base-perforation in the case of drinking cups, in our experience, was at 

 Darien.) The largest cup had a length of 12.5 inches and bore an incised decora- 



Fig. 18.— Gorget of shell. Mound north end of Creighton Island. (Full s: 



tion, unfortunately almost imperceptible, on a portion of the back. One cup, by 

 the removal of the beak and by external grinding, greatly resembled Tennessee and 

 Missouri vessels of earthenware having the conventional shell form. 



Gorgets. — With the skeleton of an adolescent was a roughly made gorget of 

 shell, irregularly circular, having a maximum diameter of 3 inches. It is decorated 

 with perforations and semi-perforations as shown in Fig. 17. 



With the skeleton of a male, having many objects in association, was a circular 

 gorget, concavo-convex, a shape conferred by the form of the body whorl of the 

 shell used in its manufacture, with a diameter of about 3.8 inches. Its decoration 

 consists of three concentric circles of somewhat irregular incisions around a central 

 four-pointed star. It has a double perforation for suspension (Fig. 18). 



