CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS OF THE GEORGIA COAST. 37 



Another gorget, found with an infant and shown in Fig. 19, has a diameter of 

 about 2.4 inches. Its decoration, carved and incised, is the rattlesnake. A part of 

 the margin was broken by a blow from a spade. 



Fig. 19.— Gorget of shell. Mound north end of Creighton Island. (Full size.) 



Chisels. — Two chisels, made by grinding beaks of Fulgur and removing 

 the body whorl, were present in the mound. 



Pins. — Shell pins, probably used in the hair, as they are invariably found near 

 the skull, were met with to the number of sixteen. In length they ranged from 1 

 to 3.5 inches. 



Mussel-shells. — Shells of various species of fresh water mussels were found 

 with a number of interments. In some cases no perforation was present, in others 

 the condition of the shell did not allow determination. In no instance was a per- 

 foration found. 



Coral. — With the cranium of a skeleton was a mass of coral, 14 inches long, 

 smoothed to the form of a " celt," the cutting edge being rudely formed, as also 

 the blunt point of the opposite end. 



PEARLS. 



Nine pearls, some larger than a good sized buckshot, perforated for use as beads, 

 were found with a burial, associated with beads of shell. Col. C. C. Jones 1 has 

 written at length on pearls from southern mounds. 



BONE. 



Several small piercing implements of bone were met with. 



With a skeleton was an implement 7.5 inches in length with a flat point, made 

 from a longitudinal section of a long bone of a lower animal with the articular 

 portion removed. 



Together, also with a skeleton, were : an implement wrought from the ulna of 



a lower animal, 6.7 inches long, the articular portion remaining, and having its 



minor extremity ground to an oblique section, probably for use as a gouge ; part of 



a wing bone of a large bird, with a length of 9.8 inches, the articular portions 



1 Op. eit. 



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