Antiquités des Indiens du Sud, en particulier des tribus de Géorgie . isks. Sur l'ornementation du gor-obtient beaucoup de travail et d'ingéniosité ont été accordés. Les perles, obtenues à partir de coquilles d'eau salée et de la. Fluviatile andlacustrine unionidce, ont été perforées à l'aide de broches de cuivre chauffées, et s'écartaient et portent aroundthe cou, les bras, les poignets, la taille et les chevilles. Des plaques de mica ont été utilisées comme lunettes de vue, et pour l'ornementation des murs de tasses à boire.Dans ce dernier cas, des pièces circulaires, carrées, ovales et en forme de diamant ont été pressées dans l'argile tout en restant molles—les bords étant légèrement e

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Antiquities of the southern Indians, particularly of the Georgia tribes . isks. Upon the ornamentation of the gor-gets much labor and ingenuity were bestowed. Pearls, obtained from salt-water shells and the. fluviatile andlacustrine unionidce, were perforated by means ofheated copper spindles, and strung and worn aroundthe neck, arms, wrists, waist and ankles. Plates of mica were used as looking-glasses, andfor the ornamentation of the walls of drinking-cups.In the latter case, circular, square, oval, and diamond-shaped pieces were pressed in the clay while still soft—the edges being slightly embedded. When the ves-sel became hard, their retention was insured. Boats—some of them large enough to convey fortypersons—were made of the trunks of trees. The treewas felled, cut off at the desired length, and hollowedout by fire. Through its agency also, its sides wereshaped, and both the interior and exterior of the canoescraped and smoothed by means of shells and hand-axes or gouges. Bark canoes were seldom if everused.1 They belong to colder waters. Fig. 1.. In 1845, while digging a canal on one of the rice-plantations, on the Savannah River, located only afew miles distant from the city of Savannah, at adepth of three feet and a half below the surface of the 1 Smiths History of Virginia, vol. i., p. 132. Richmond reprint, 1S19. 54 ANTIQUITIES OE THE SOUTHERN INDIANS. swamp, the workmen came upon a canoe embedded inthe soil. It answered to the description of what isfamiliarly known as a dug-out, and had been fashionedfrom the trunk of a cypress-tree (see illustration).About eleven feet long and thirty inches wide, itsdepth was scarcely more than ten inches. Both bowand stern were strengthened, each by a wooden bracekept in position by wooden pins passing through thesides of the canoe and entering the braces at either end.This boat curved upward at either end, so that thebow and stern rose above the middle portion. Lo-cated about three feet from the stern was seat ni

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