, 178 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS OF THE ALTAMAHA RIVER. 



Thirty-eight inches from the surface was a pot (A) with rounded base and 

 almost perpendicular sides faintly decorated with a complicated stamp. Its height 

 is approximately 15 inches; its diameter, 13 inches. It was about two-thirds filled 

 with good sized fragments of charred and calcined human bones, associated with 

 small shell beads showing no mark of fire. This pot was capped and partly covered 

 by an inverted undecorated pot (B), badly broken when discovered, but since sue- 



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cessfully put together. Its base was 19 inches from the surface. From a small flat 

 base its sides extend out at a considerable angle. Its rim is almost horizontally 

 inverted. Its maximum diameter is 17.25 inches; its diameter of aperture, 13.5 

 by 15.5 inches; its diameter of base, 3.5 inches; its height, 10.5 inches. Vessels 

 A and B were presented to the Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass. 



