80 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS OF THE GEORGIA COAST. 



of a child, head S. W., too much decayed for exact determination as to position, but 

 a flexed burial on the right side was indicated. At the neck were beads of shell. 



Burial No. 41, 12 feet S. E. by S., 3.5 feet down, with the skull resting on the 

 mouth of an imperforate shell drinking cup, was the skeleton of a .child from six to 

 seven years of age, flexed on the left side, the head S. E. Small shell beads were 

 at the neck and larger ones at the wrist. 



Burial No. 42, 16 feet W., on the base, flexed on the right side, heading E., was 

 the skeleton of an infant about 2 years old. Shell beads were on the legs and neck, 

 a shell pin at the back of the head and a shell drinking cup nearby. 



Burial No. 43, 18 feet S, 2 feet 8 inches down, in a large pit was the skeleton 

 of a female, flexed on the left side, head S. E. 



Burial No. 44, 13 feet S. S. W., in a pit extending 1 foot 

 into undisturbed sand, 3.5 feet from the surface, was the skeleton 

 of a child about 5 years of age, flexed on the left side, head E. 

 In association were : shell beads ; two fragments of soapstone, 

 from a pot or pots, one wrought into a rude pendant, roughly 

 incised and grooved (Fig. 50) ; lumps of hematite ; a rough 

 arrowpoint ; a bone piercing implement, badly decayed. 



Burial No. 45, 16 feet S. W., in a pit, 4.5 feet from the sur- 

 face, was the skeleton of a male, flexed on the left side, head S. 

 E. This pit was filled with a mixture of oyster shells and 

 surface loam. 



Burial No. 46, in the same pit, southwest of, and in contact 

 with, No. 45, on the same plane, was a number of bones not in 

 Fig. 50.— Pendant of soap- anatomical order, probably belonging to a female. A femur lay 

 south-end 1 Setuement! partly on the skull, while some of the long bones were out of 

 (Fu " slze) position and reversed. 



Burial No. 47. In contact with No. 46 were a cranium, a femur and a 

 humerus, belonging to a male. 



Burial No. 48, 22 feet S. by W., a skeleton badly decayed on the bottom of a 

 pit, 4.5 feet from the surface, heading E. As nearly as could be made out, the 

 skeleton was flexed on the left side. 



Burial No. 49, 22 feet S. W., a skeleton of a female on the bottom of a large 

 pit, 3 feet 8 inches down, flexed on the right side, head S. E. Immediately above 

 the bones was a thin local layer of oyster shells. 



Burial No. 50, 26 feet S. W., a skeleton of a female, flexed on the right side, 

 head S., on the bottom of a pit, 3 feet 3 inches from the surface. 



A number of sherds, undecorated, cord-marked, and adorned with a complica- 

 ted stamp,, were met with throughout the mound. 



Among the oyster shells was a piercing implement of bone. 

 Loose in the sand were several fragments of pebble-hammers and one rude 

 arrowhead of quartz. 



In caved sand, probably from a skeleton, were three small polished stone chisels. 



