50 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS OF THE GEORGIA COAST. 



20. Certain human remains, buried in 

 oyster shells at a depth of about 1 foot, fell 

 with caved material before exact data were 

 obtained. Two pairs of femurs were present 

 and the deposit probably included the remains 

 of several persons. 



The reader's attention is called to the 

 the fact that it is next to impossible to slice 

 down a mound of sand as can so readily be 

 done with a mound of clay. Mishaps through 

 caving sand are of occasional occurrence even 

 in the case of the most careful wprkers. 



21. A deposit of calcined human remains 

 about 1 foot from the surface. In association 

 were the columella of a marine univalve and 

 eight shell beads, each about 1 inch in length. 



22. Bones of male in caved sand. 



23. Skeleton of male on right side, 

 face to the right. Nine inches down. 



24. A cranium unassociated with other 

 bones. Capping it was a handsome drinking 

 cup of shell having on its outer side three 

 incised lines forming a parallelogram with a 

 portion of the margin of the opening as one 

 of the shorter sides. 



25. Four crania with other bones and a 

 few shell beads. 



26. Flexed skeleton of a female lying 

 on the right side, 10 inches down, immediately 

 above number 25. 



27. A bunched burial including approx- 

 imately the skeletal complement of a male, 

 18 inches from the surface. With this skel- 



ton was a vessel of good material, scaphoid in shape and 

 landsomely decorated with a variety of incised designs and a 

 knob on either side, to which justice has not been done in 

 Plate I, Fig. 2. Within the lines, the decoration had been 

 supplemented by red pigment bright and fresh in appearance 

 when removed from the mound in a state of moisture but 

 hardly apparent when dry. A small portion at one end, 

 broken from the vessel, was present with it, permitting com- 

 plete restoration. Approximate measurements : length, 9.4 

 inches; height, 5.75 inches; maximum breadth, 7 inches; 

 breadth of aperture, 5.75 inches. 



