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Burial No. 26, male, flexed on the right side, head S. by W. Associated, were : 

 two undecorated tobacco pipes, with parts missing ; the lower half of a chert arrow- 

 head ; a bit of soapstone pot ; two bone pins badly decayed. 



Burial No. 30, 3 feet W. S. W., 3 feet down, a skeleton of an aged female, 

 flexed on the right side, heading S. by E. At the neck were small beads and near 

 by were : six imperforate marine shells (Dosinia discus) 1 ; three pebbles used as 

 smoothing stones ; one attractive pebble-hammer of quartz ; and two rectangular 

 dishes, the smaller inverted within the larger, each with rounded corners and slightly 

 converging sides, having, in addition, an inward slope toward the middle of the 

 longer sides. On the base of the smaller vessel and extending somewhat over on 

 one side, is a curious incised decoration shown diagrammatically in Fig. 47. 



Professor Holmes considers it to be " most certainly representative of some life 

 form or forms." 



Fig. 47.— Incised decoration on dish. Mound at Dumoussay's Field. (Full size.) 



Professor Putnam thus writes of it : — "As to the figure carved on the oblong 

 dish from the Sapelo Island mound, both Mr. Willoughby and I find ourselves unable 

 to reduce it to its elements. It is probably a conventionalized figure, which in time 

 will be traced back to its realistic form." 



The approximate measurements of the larger vessel, in which we noticed hema- 

 tite, are as follows : length, 9 inches; breadth, 4.5 inches; height, 1.5 inches. The 

 smaller dish was approximately 7 inches long, 3.25 inches wide, and 1.5 inches high. 



Burial No. 32, Vessel B, 4 feet W. Just below the surface, was an undecorated 

 imperforate bowl in fragments containing bits of uncremated bones of a young infant. 

 Nearby were : an undecorated imperforate vessel with globular body, constricted neck 

 and flaring rim, of about 3 pints capacity ; one shell drinking cup and one conch shell. 



Burial No. 34, 13 feet E. by N., a skeleton of a male, flexed on the right side, 

 head S., having in association a mass of powdered hematite. 

 1 Determined by Professor Pilsbry. 



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