. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 406 NORTH AMEEICAN STONE Hon of an old-fashioned sicord deposited with the decayed bones of Ihe skeleton. This tumuhis was conical in shape, abont seven feci: high, and possessed a base diameter of some twenty feet. It contained only Fig. 4. one skeleton, and that lay, with the articles I have ^—^ enumerated, at tbe bottom of the mound, and on a level with the plain. The oaken hilt, most of the guard, and about seven inches of
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 406 NORTH AMEEICAN STONE Hon of an old-fashioned sicord deposited with the decayed bones of Ihe skeleton. This tumuhis was conical in shape, abont seven feci: high, and possessed a base diameter of some twenty feet. It contained only Fig. 4. one skeleton, and that lay, with the articles I have ^—^ enumerated, at tbe bottom of the mound, and on a level with the plain. The oaken hilt, most of the guard, and about seven inches of the blade of the sword still remained. The rest of the blade had per- ished from rust. Strange to say, the oak had best resisted the ' gnawing tooth of time.' This mound had never been opened or in any way disturbed, ex- cept by the winds and rains of the changing seasons. I have no doubt but that the interment was primary, and that all the articles enumerated were deposited with the dead before this mound-tomb was heaped above him. This, within the range of my observa- tion, is an interesting and exceptional case. I am persuaded that mound-building, at least upon the Georgia coast, was abandoned by the natives very shortly after their primal contact with the ; From mound-building I turn again to North American flint imple- ments. Mr. Stevens refers in his work to the absence of flint scrapers in the series from the United States exhibited in the Blackmore Museum. Scrapers of the European spoon-shaped type, however, are not as scarce in the United States as Mr. Stevens seems to suppose. The collection of the Smithsonian Institution contains a nuniber of them ; and I found myself two characteristic specimens in the Kjokkenmodding at Key- port, Xew Jersey, described by me in the Smithsonian report for ISGI. They lay upon the shell-covered ground, a short distance from each other, and were perhaps made by the same hand. In Fig. 4 I give a full-size drawing of one of
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