64 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS OF THE GEORGIA COAST. 



dinally must have required considerable time. We are told by Adair, 1 " Formerly 

 four doe-skins was the price of a large conch-shell bead, about the length and thick- 

 ness of a man's fore-finger; which they fixed to the crown of their head as an 

 high ornament — so greatly they valued them." 



With one burial were a number of discoidal beads, each about one inch in 

 diameter, perforated in the center through the minor 

 /^^^^^^- axis. These beads must not be confounded with 



runtees, which have their perforation edgewise. 



/|j§P ^ j> '^ '; , Mussel shells. — Great numbers of fresh-water 



mussel shells, all Georgia species, some perforated 

 for suspension, others not, were present with human 

 l\ '':■ ; \\ remains. With one burial were many shells ( Unio 



Shepardianus\ some decayed and broken, though 

 33, all perforated, were recovered in fairly good 

 condition. 



PEARLS. 



One pearl, perforated as usual, was met with. 



Fig. 41. — Gorget of shell. Mound at 

 Bourbon. (Full size.) 



" Celts" — Eleven polished "celts," most of them of volcanic rock, from 3 to 

 6.5 inches in length, were present in the mound. It has not been thought neces- 

 sary to mutilate them for exact determination as to material. Several, probably 

 of green-stone, were badly decayed through contact with water. 



Pebble-hammers, hammer-stones, etc. — The mound was rich in these objects. 

 One hammer-stone was apparently a portion of a celt. One pebble-hammer, with a 

 length of 6.25 inches, had also seen use as a smoothing-stone. Certain ones, 

 smoothed on four sides, presented an interesting appearance. 



Arrow and Lance points. — Five arrow and lance points of chert, of chalcedony 

 and of quartz, all of ordinary type, were found during the 

 investigation. 



Discoidal stones. — Four small discoidal stones were met 

 with. One of micaceous sandstone was in a friable condition. 



Soapstone objects. — With caved sand, near human 



remains, was a portion of a vessel of soapstone — a large 



' vessel, as shown by the slight concavity of the inner surface. 



It is about 4 inches square and has on the margins a rude 



and irregular decoration. 



With Burial No. 50, a male, was a bit of a soapstone vessel, rudely decorated 

 with incised lines on either side and on two of its three margins. With it was a 

 circular ornament of soapstone having the margin divided by five incisions. Height, 

 .5 of an inch; diameter, 1.2 inches (Fig. 42). 



i "History of the American Indians," page 170. Cited by C. C. Jones. 



Fig. 42.— Ornament of soap- 

 stone. Mound at Bou r- 

 bon. (Full size.) 



