70 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS OF THE GEORGIA COAST. 



Burial No. 35, 6 feet N. W., 3.5 feet down, skeleton of a child, flexed on the 

 right side, head S. W. by S. At the neck were eight massive beads of shell, the 

 largest 2 inches in length, and a number of small beads. On the chest was a rattle 

 made from the shell of a tortoise, very badly decayed, having within many little 

 pebbles ; a gorget of shell with part of the rim missing, having a diameter of 2.6 

 inches, bearing the design of a rattlesnake. 



Burial No. 36, Vessel C,' 7 feet N. W. by W. A few inches below the surface 

 was a badly crushed, undecorated, imperforate vessel held in place by sand, 17.75 

 inches long with a maximum width of 12 inches. The orifice is 14 inches in length 

 and 9.5 inches wide. The height varies from 6 inches at the middle of the side to 

 7 inches at the end. In shape the vessel resembles the larger one described with 

 Burial No. 30. At the bottom of the vessel were small shell beads in numbers, 

 while powdered hematite was present in it in places. The top was covered or 

 partly covered by fragments of earthenware, not representing any entire vessel. 

 This oblong vessel, which, pieced together, is shown in Plate VIII, enclosed a 

 lower jaw; arm bones on either side and in the middle, ribs; part of the sternum 

 and a few vertebras. These bones were not in anatomical order. 



In the sand immediately below the vessel were the skull without the mandi- 

 ble ; the pelvis with the left lower extremity in anatomical order and flexed. The 

 bones of the right leg were parallel to, and alongside of, those of the left leg, while 

 the right thigh was about one foot away. Scattered phalanges and vertebras lay 

 about and the portion of the sternum not contained in the vessel was present. With 

 these bones were massive shell beads and a shell drinking cup. This burial we 

 consider the most interesting of any it has been our fortune to encounter. 



Burial No. 41, 10 feet N. W. by N., 1 foot 2 inches below the present surface, 

 was a bunched burial, having : the bones of the lower extremities with one tibia 

 reversed from its femur, the long bones parallel ; the pelvis on top ; the ribs mingled ; 

 one humerus ; no forearm bones ; no cranium and but one vertebra. 



Burial No. 46, 17 feet N. N. E., 2.5 feet down, a skeleton of uncertain sex, 

 flexed on the right, heading S. With it was a shell drinking cup and one pebble. 



Burial No. 48, 16 feet N. N. E., 2 feet 3 inches down, was the skeleton of a 

 male, on right side, head S. by E. In the grave with the skeleton, 2 feet west of 

 it, were two vessels, each of about 2 quarts capacity, of the type described as found 

 near Burial No. 32, each on its base but tilting toward the other, so that a part of 

 the rim of one lay in the aperture of the other. The interior of one was coated 

 with red pigment. Near the knee of the skeleton were fragments of a cord-marked 

 bowl of about three quarts capacity, not together, but spread out at some distance 

 one from the other. This bowl, when pieced together, showed a base-perforation. 

 Below the upper margin, on either side of a crack, were two perforations placed 

 to permit the passing through of a cord or sinew to hold together the parts on either 

 side. Below the skeleton and the two vessels first described was a continuous layer 

 of decayed wood or bark. 



Burial No. 49, 22 feet N., just beneath the surface was the skeleton of a male, 



