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well put together. Diagonal length, 5.5 inches; diameter of bowl and height, each 

 3.3 inches ; diameter of stem, 2 inches ; orifice for stem, 1 inch. 



Caps. — Thirty-four shell drinking cups, none remarkable for size or finish, were 

 taken from the mound, ten forming one deposit. All were imperforate and three 



varied from any yet found by us in Florida 



or in Georgia, we believe, in that they 



were wrought, not from Fulgur perver- 



sum, whose opening is to the left, but from 



a right handed Fulgur (canalicu latum). 



Chisels. — Eighteen shell chisels were 



associated with human remains. These 



rather rough-looking implements, one of 



which we show in Fig. 40, made by 



grinding the beak to a cutting edge and 



removing the body whorl from the axis, 



must not be confounded with certain 



beautiful shell chisels found in Florida but not, so 



far as we know, on the Georgia coast, which are 



made from the lip of the great marine univalve, 



S trombus gig as. 



Agricultural implements. — Two specimens 

 of the right handed, heavy form of the conch 

 {Fulgur carica), with perforation in the body 

 whorl opposite the aperture and with the beak 

 worn or chipped down, came from the mound. 



Pius. — Twelve pins, the largest about 4.5 

 inches, lay with skeletal remains practically always 

 near the head. 



Gorgets. — In midden refuse composing a shell 

 layer was a circular gorget of shell of about 2 

 inches diameter, having carved in the center a 

 rough diamond-shaped figure (Fig. 41). 



With Burial No. 92, a child of about 7 years, . 

 was a gorget near the head. This gorget, nearly 

 circular, with a diameter of about 1.7 inches, bore 

 the well-known design of the rattlesnake. 



Beads. — Beads of shell were fairly numerous 

 though in no wise comparable in size, number or state of preservation to those in 

 the Creighton Island mound, with the exception of a fine tubular bead, 4 inches in 

 length, having a diameter of .6 of one inch. To drill a bead of this sort longitu- 



