166 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS, COAST OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 



the mound on Callawassie island and in these mounds alone were burials found in 

 anatomical order, the chief method of disposing of the dead elsewhere being partial 

 cremation ; that is, deposits where disconnected bones showing no mark of fire were 

 mixed with charred and calcined fragments. In the Little island burial mound cal- 

 cined bones alone were met with. 



Although in certain mounds fragments of pottery were found bearing a com- 

 plicated stamp of the type of the Georgia coast, no evidence of urn burial was seen 

 during our investigation. 



The custom to inter artifacts with the dead, so universal among the aborigine's, 

 seems to have been little practised along the South Carolina coast, for only at Little 

 island, as the reader may recall, did we find it in evidence, and then little beyond 

 the customary beads was present. 



On the whole, it would seem probable the South Carolina coast has little to 

 offer from an archaeological standpoint. 



