136 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS OF THE GEORGIA COAST. 



of the Pueblo tribes. You will find this same Z-shaped figure in the center of a 

 design, representing a woman, drawn by the Mokis, in Mallory's paper, page 705 of 

 the Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1888-89. In this, however, the two dots are 

 not represented. I know of only one other example like yours, and that is shown 

 on a small human figure carved in ivory from a mound in Ohio. This figure is 

 represented with some sort of decoration over the chest and on that decoration is 

 carved the Z-shaped design with the two dots as shown on your potsherd." 



Burial No. 3, Vessel B, 4 feet W. N. W., approximately the lower third of a 

 large imperforate vessel, the remainder of which had been ploughed away. Within 

 were fragments of calcined human bones and 26 barrel-shaped beads of shell, 

 remarkably well preserved, the largest about .75 of one inch in length. 



The Cabbage-Garden and the Long-Field, neighboring tracts, were carefully 

 searched for mounds without success, though shell heaps were abundant. A number 

 of these were investigated without results of especial interest, 



Skiddaway Island, Chatham County. Third Settlement, Mound A. 



This mound, in a field long under cultivation, leased by Fanny Johnston, colored, 

 in the Third Settlement, scarcely rose above the general level. Its diameter was 

 estimated at 71 feet ; a section line extending E. S. E. and . W. N. W. was run 

 through what seemed to be the center of the mound and the half to the south was 

 dug through. There was no sign of previous investigation. The usual pits and 

 graves were present. 



In the half of the mound investigated, human remains were met with at 

 twenty-seven points as follows : four pockets of calcined remains ; four late disturb- 

 ances ; one not determined ; eighteen skeletons. 



Of the 18 skeletons : two were at full length on back ; nine at full length on 

 face ; four were flexed on the left side ; one flexed, face down ; while one, with the 

 trunk on back, had the legs partly flexed ; one was in a sitting position, with the 

 head crushed down on the pelvis. 



Excluding the burial in a sitting position the skeletons headed : E., 1 ; E. by 

 N., 2 ; N. E. by E., 1 ; N. E., 3 ; N. N. W., 2 ; N. W., 1 ; W. S. W., 2 ; S. W., 1 ; 

 S. E. by S., 1; S. E., 2; E. S. E., 1. 



The five flexed burials, however, headed between S. E. and W. S. W. 



Sherds were rarely met with in the mound. None of complicated stamp was 

 present. 



Near a burial was part of a gracefully shaped hammer of quartzite and a 

 pebble-hammer. 



With another burial were six pebble-hammers of quartz, one smoothing stone 

 and hematite. 



Several fragmentary implements of stone and one bone piercing implement 

 were met with. 



A fact carefully noted by us, all through our investigation of the Georgia Coast, 



