. Bulletin. Ethnology. 308 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 154. Figure 36.—C. C. Jones' map of the Rembert mounds. general direction of Cyrus Thomas. Thomas reported that only the largest mound and one of the smaller were still standing at that time (Thomas, 1894, pp. 315-317) .^ When the writer arrived in 1948, it was learned that the large mound had been almost completely demolished during a particularly destructive flood in 1908. The remaining basal portions of the main mound were pointed out by Dude Dubose, an aged man who had played about there when a child, and his identification of
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 308 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 154. Figure 36.—C. C. Jones' map of the Rembert mounds. general direction of Cyrus Thomas. Thomas reported that only the largest mound and one of the smaller were still standing at that time (Thomas, 1894, pp. 315-317) .^ When the writer arrived in 1948, it was learned that the large mound had been almost completely demolished during a particularly destructive flood in 1908. The remaining basal portions of the main mound were pointed out by Dude Dubose, an aged man who had played about there when a child, and his identification of the ruin was confirmed by another elderly man introduced to us only as the "; An unsuccessful search was also made for the small mound which had still been visible in 1886. During 3 weeks' work, the survey party excavated five test pits in and about the large mound and dug six pits in the adjacent village area. Our purpose was to see if any important structural features might be present and whether there would be a great loss of material if the site were allowed to go under water without further excavation. These pits provided cross sections of strata and brought to light a considerable number of faunal remains, fragments of aboriginal pot- tery, and a few other artifacts. The decorated potsherds most frequently occurring in the test pits could readily be assigned to the widespread type named Lamar Com- plicated Stamped (Southeastern Archeological Conference, 1939) * Most of the material recovered during Thomas' excavation program was subsequently placed In the United States National Museum, Strangely, there is nothing there from the Rembert Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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