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what I take to be a conventional owl, and. as you observe, the face is turned to the 

 smoker, which would be considered a legitimate Indian conception. It is not likely 

 to have any duplicate, as it is hand-work and the artist is not likely to have adhered 

 to the same design in modelling another. I regard it a fine specimen of original 

 Cherokee work." 



Burial No. 4, 8 feet W. S. W., 10 inches from the surface had been disturbed 

 in part by the second pit of the previous digging. Charcoal lay near the skull. 



Together, and unassociated with human remains, were three fossil shark' s teeth. 

 each somewhat over one inch in length, with bases and points considerably worn, 

 showing use in handles as pointed tools. With them was a mussel-shell containing 

 two bones with cores of spurs, doubtless belonging to a wild turkey. A pitted 

 smoothing stone lay loose in the sand, as did two arrow-points of chert. 



In a field formerly under cultivation, about half a mile southeast from the 

 mound just described, was a mound of sand 4 feet 5 inches high and 61 feet across 

 the base. It had been somewhat spread out by cultivation. Previous to our visit 

 a small hole had been dug into the top. A trench 30 feet wide w r as dug, in from the 

 margin through the center. About the middle of the mound were calcined frag- 

 ments of bones probably belonging to one individual. Similar fragments were seen 

 in the sand thrown out by the former digger. 



Mounds neak Mills' Landing, Screven County, Ga. (2). 

 In the thick cypress swamp bordering the river and accessible only at low 

 stages of the river, is a mound with circular base and marked summit plateau, also 

 circular. This mound, about one-quarter of a mile in a northwesterly direction 

 from the landing, which is about 112 miles by the river from Savannah, is on the 

 property of Dr. G. L. Mills of Hirschman, Ga., and serves as a refuge for live-stock 

 in times of freshet. Its height is 11 feet. Across the base is a distance of 92 feet. 

 Trenching showed it to be of clay, apparently without stratification. No burials 

 were encountered. 



xlbout half a mile in a northwesterly direction from the other is a mound 

 apparently of the same type, though somewhat smaller. A small amount of trench- 

 ing showed it to be of clay, but yielded no other result, 



Mounds near Brooks' Landing, Barnwell County, S. C. (2). 

 Brooks' Landing, not given on the government chart, is about 121 miles from 

 Savannah by the river. About half a mile in an easterly direction from the land- 

 ing, in the cypress swamp, are two mounds on the property of Mr. S. G. Lawton, 

 of Allendale, S. C, who courteously placed them at our disposition. The mounds, 

 about the same size and almost contiguous, stand close to the edge of the terrace, 



