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Title: Antiquities of the southern Indians, particularly of the Georgia tribes
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Jones, Charles C. (Charles Colcock), 1831-1893
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ept that it has been hollowed out only on one side, isthe mortar represented in Fig. 3, Plate XVIII. The bowl is scarely more than an inch in depth,and about five inches in diameter. By far the mostsymmetrical and carefully-fashioned mortar I have seenwas ploughed up in a field in Liberty County, someten miles from the sea-coast. Made of a yellow, ferru-ginous quartz, with a flat bottom and circular wallsgradually expanding as they rose, its general shapewas that of an inverted, truncated cone. Entirely arti-ficial, the exterior was well polished. About ten inch-es high, eight inches in diameter at the top, andseven inches at the bottom, the interior had been ex-cavated to the depth of nearly eight inches. At thetop the walls were about three-quarters of an inchthick, and increased in thickness as they descended. Nomaterial exists in this section of the State from whichsuch a utensil could have been manufactured. Theprobability is, that it was made at a considerable re- 7>late JHH.
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AM PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHIC CO. N Y OSBORM; PROCESS MORTARS. 313 move from the spot where it was found, and was sub-sequently brought to the coast by some primitive mer-chantman, by whom it was there exchanged for sea-shells and other articles of value native to this region.Upon its construction great time and labor must havebeen expended; and this relic is a remarkable illus-tration of the skill and patient industry of the ancientworkman, who, unassisted by any metallic tools, wasable from such a hard substance to fashion a mortarso serviceable and so admirable in all its proportions.A mortar not unlike in its general appearance was ob-tained by the Rev. George Howe, D. D., from an In-dian cemetery on the bank of the Congaree River, afew miles from Columbia, South Carolina. It is figuredin the plate facing page 178 of the sixth volume of Mr.Schoolcrafts Archives of Aboriginal Knowledge.In a subsequent chapter we will observe that some ofthe imperforate discoidal stones clearly indicate tha

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