66 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS OF THE GEORGIA COAST. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



The carapace of a tortoise, somewhat fragmentary, with two perforations, was 

 found with a burial. The lower part of the shell was probably absent through 

 decay. In the mound at Bourbon were several tortoise shells in the last stage of 

 decay, usually surrounding nests of small pebbles ; once or twice, flakes of chert ; 

 once, small square pieces of shell, probably originally destined for beads, and a 

 number of the teeth of the drum-fish. We have, in other mounds, met with 

 deposits of drum-fish teeth which doubtless had remained after the enclosing 

 tortoise shells had decayed. 



Plumbago, perhaps used as black paint, was present with one burial. 



Many burials throughout the mound were associated with the red oxide of 

 iron in powder. 



A small bead of blue glass was found by a digger engaged on the surface layer. 

 This bead, in view of the absence of glass beads with burials in the body of the 

 mound, we took to be a relic of later Indians who, we know, inhabited Sapelo 

 Island until a comparatively recent period. 



ASSOCIATION OF OBJECTS. 



With Burial No. 31 were: two pebbles ; a fiat mass of undetermined stone ; two 

 fragments belonging to a pot or pots of soapstone ; a pebble worn down as a smoothing 

 implement ; a shell chisel ; three badly-decayed bone piercing implements ; a flat 

 fragmentary smoothing-stone and one large pebble-hammer. 



With Burial No. 33, a mass of calcined and unburnt bones, were two stone 

 hatchets; two earthenware tobacco pipes and the earthenware dish already described. 



There lay with Burial No. 73, a male, shell beads at the wrist; five tobacco 

 pipes, some with portions missing ; two pebble-hammers ; one pebble ; two fresh- 

 water mussel shells ; one shell chisel ; one discoidal stone with a concavity on one 

 side ; one small quartz arrowhead ; one portion of a columella of some large marine 

 univalve ; one decayed turtle shell containing drum-fish teeth, etc. ; one shell drink- 

 ing cup ; one bone pin ; one discoidal stone. 



Sapelo Island, McIntosh County. Low Mound at Bourbon. 



About 150 yards in a southerly direction from the large mound at Bourbon, 

 was one having a diameter of base of 38 feet, a height of 3 feet 4 inches. Upon it 

 lay the trunk of a large oak tree, which, with the root, interfered with complete in- 

 vestigation. Somewhat over one-half the mound was dug away, with the courteous 

 permission of Amos Sawyer, Esq. 



The mound at marginal portions was thickly covered with oyster shells, the 

 layer gradually decreasing in thickness toward the center. The body of the mound 

 was composed of black loamy sand. The presence of water near the base impeded 

 investigation. 



Human remains were met with at twelve points. Three skeletons lay at full 

 length, two on the back and one face down in sub-basal craves under water. Other 



