CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS OF THE GEORGIA COAST. 



With Burial No. 137, in vessel F, was an imperforate, irregularly circular piece 

 of soapstone 2.3 inches by 2 inches by .5 of one inch thick. On one side was a 

 rough incised design representing the serpent (Fig. 43) ; on the other a cross-hatch 

 decoration (Fig. 44). 



With Burial No. 45, was a curious little piece of soapstone 1.8 inches in height 

 roughly wrought into the semblance of the upper portion of the human figure. 



ived tablet of soapstone. 



The arms are plainly apparent, as is the mouth. The upper portion of the head 

 seems to be wanting through breakage or through omission (Fig. 45). 

 Several unworked bits of soapstone pots were present with burials. 

 Miscellaneous. — A number of flakes of chert, probably used as cutting imple- 

 ments, lay with burials or loose in the sand. With a skele- 

 ton was a small nodule of black jasper. 



Piercing implements. — Piercing implements, some 

 probably hair pins, were fairly numerous. Many were 

 decayed and broken. Some piercing implements retain the 

 articular portion of the bone at the blunt end. 



A curious feature, not before noticed by us, was the 

 presence in this mound of sections of bone pins with burials, 

 not broken but apparently intentionally divided by cutting. 

 With one burial were no less than seven of these fragments. 

 A less number were found at several other points in the mound. 

 Miscellaneous. — With human remains were the jaws, of a small carnivore and 

 part of a lower jaw of a much larger one with the lower portion, including the 

 roots of the teeth, ground away, leaving a flat surface. We shall again refer to this 

 curious aboriginal custom in connection with jaws similarly treated from mounds on 

 St. Catherine's and Ossabaw Islands. 



Fig. 45.— Effigy of soapstone. 

 Mound at Bourbon 



(Full size.) 



