60 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS OF THE GEORGIA COAST. 



Calcined remains in urns. — Vessel A, Burial No. 25, 20 feet S. W. by W. 

 from the center, was a flat-bottomed, undecorated, globular, imperforate vessel of 

 about two gallons capacity, slightly constricted at the neck. It was crushed to 

 fragments. Within were the calcined remains of an adolescent. 



Vessel E, Burial No. 136, made the fourth of the group to which reference has 

 been made. It appeared to be of the ordinary type but was crushed to small. pieces. 

 It seemed to have been about half full of incinerated human remains. 



Vessel G, Burial No. 163, 9 feet N. N. W. from the center, lay in fragments 

 over part of a layer of calcined remains. Its decoration was red bands running 

 laterally. The arrangement of the fragments seemed to indicate a former inverted 

 position for the vessel. 



Not noted. — Four burials included under this head were interments where full 

 data, though obtainable, are omitted from our field notes. 



EARTHEN WAKE. 



Sherds. — Sherds were of infrequent occurrence, the majority undecorated or 

 cord-marked, though a few had incised decoration. Excluding the burial jars and 



Fig. 35.— Vessel of earthenware. Mound at Bourbon. (Full size.) 



one or two sherds believed to be superficial, the complicated stamp jwas not noted 

 in the mound. 



Vessels. — We- have described certain vessels used for burial purposes. 



With Burial No. 26, that of a child about eight years old, was an urn of about 

 three pints capacity with globular body, constricted neck and flaring rim. Beneath 

 the rim on the outside was an encircling row of button-like protuberances which 

 had been modeled and pressed on to the clay before baking. Certain of these had 

 dropped off. 



Vessel B, an undecorated bowl with rounded base and slightly inverted rim, 



