CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS OF THE GEORGIA COAST. 41 



A very rude bowl, faintly decorated with a 

 complicated stamp, lay inverted with the skeleton 

 of a child. Diameter of mouth, 8 inches ; height, 

 3.8 inches. 



Several considerable fragments of medium 

 sized, undecorated bowls were met with. It is 

 possible that these, interred whole, were subse- 

 quently crushed and portions lost. 



Miscellaneous. — An earthenware sphere, about 

 .5 of one inch in diameter, lay loose in the sand. 



In the eastern slope of the mound, 35 feet 

 N. E. by E. from the center, on the base of a pit, 

 5 feet 8 inches from the surface, on which was an 

 unbroken layer of oyster shells 2 feet in thickness, 

 lay a skeleton in the last stage of decay. With it 

 were various objects, including a chisel of copper 

 (Fig. 24), 7.9 inches in length, with a breadth across 

 the shank of 1.2 inches and 2 inches across the 

 flaring cutting edge. Its thickness is .27 of an inch. 

 It lay between wood or bark thoroughly decayed. 

 Toward the end opposite the cutting edge on either 

 side was a black band about 1 inch in breadth, 

 where, apparently, it had been attached to a 

 handle. A longer chisel of the same type, though 

 much thinner, is figured l by the late Colonel Jones 

 as coming from a mound of the Nacoochee Valley, 

 Georgia. This chisel is the only copper found by 

 us among the sea-islands of Georgia. The reader 

 interested in aboriginal copper is referred to our 

 memoir in Part II of " Certain Sand Mounds of 

 the St. Johns River, Florida," 2 where it is shown 

 that the copper of the mounds is native copper, 

 and far purer than the article produced in Europe 

 during the mound building period. 



% MISCELLANEOUS. 



Wm With four skeletons were masses of plumbago, 

 jpF perhaps used as a black pigment. 



1 Op. at. Plate VI, fig. 2. 



2 Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci., Vol. X. 



Fig. 24. — Chisel of copper. 

 Creighton Island. 



Mound north end o: 

 (Full size.) 



