42 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS OF THE GEORGIA COAST. 



Small sheets of mica were met with seven times. They bore no particular 

 shape when found, and the chipped and broken edges left any determination 

 doubtful. Certain of these sheets were peculiarly flexible, resembling tin foil, a 

 characteristic, we are informed, conferred by fire. 



With numerous burials were masses of red hematite in powder. 



ASSOCIATION OF ARTIFACTS. 



We now proceed to give several typical associations of artifacts, the objects 

 composing which have mostly been individually described. 



With a bunched mass of bones were : a large shell drinking cup ; small shell 

 beads ; sixty-three massive shell beads ; nine pearls. 



With a skeleton having a layer of fine charcoal covering pelvis and thighs 

 were : fifteen massive shell beads at the neck, small shell beads at the wrist and 

 two pebbles near the thigh. 



By the skeleton of an adolescent were : two masses of plumbago ; powdered 

 hematite ; two shell cups ; three discoidal stones ; some delicate tubular shell beads ; 

 a wedge-shaped arrow point of chalcedony ; one pebble ; one small sheet of mica. 



With the skeleton of a male were : ten cores, spalls and chips of chert ; two 

 rude arrowheads, one of quartz, one of chert ; a bit of quartz ; a number of pebbles ; 



Shell. 



Diagram of grave-pit. Mound north end of Creighton Island. 



several sherds ; small fragments belonging to a soapstone vessel ; a rude tobacco 

 pipe of earthenware. 



With a male skeleton were : three " celts ;" a long chisel of slate ; another some- 

 what smaller; five small chisels; one arrowhead; one smoothing stone; one nest 

 of small pebbles ; seventy-seven massive shell beads ; small shell beads ; a shell 

 gorget ; a bone pin, much decayed ; an earthenware polisher ; mica ; hematite. 



Let into undisturbed sand, upon the base of an interesting pit, was a skeleton 

 of a male in a semi-reclining position. With the remains were : large and small 

 shell beads; *a deposit of small pebbles; a small stone chisel; a "celt;" powdered 

 hematite. From the top of the pit containing this body to the level of the undis- 

 turbed sand was 5 feet 10 inches, including 1 foot of shell, there almost superficial. 

 The exact width of the pit could not be determined, as the sand filling it resembled 

 that of the mound. The pit had been filled with sand to the depth of 2.5 feet at 



