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covered with a thin solution of glue. It is figured below, both side and 

 back view, also from above. Figs. 24, e and/, and 26, e. There was also 

 found a perfect awl or piercing instrument (Fig. 15, &), made of the left 

 half of the right metatarsal bone of the elk {Cervus Canadensis). A part 

 of the larger end crumbled a little after bringing it to the air. It is 12y^2- 

 inches long, and would have been an effective weapon to use in close 

 combat. From a burial mound in Tennessee Dr. Jones took a needle, 

 as he styles it, or piercing implement measuring 14 inches in length. * 

 "It had'' he states ''been fashioned with great care from the tibia of 

 the American deer, and was probably used for piercing leather." The 

 larger number of the fragments of bone found in this Naples mound 

 were those of the deer. 



Mound No. 7 is within 60 feet of No. 6, on the west. It is now of 

 an oblong shape, being longest from north to south, but this is due to 

 the fact that the western half of it has been removed by the washing of 

 the river. This mound was opened in one place to the original surface 

 but nothing was found at the time, except fragments of bones split in 

 the same manner as those in mound No. 6. Among these were fragments 

 of the humerus, tibia, radius, ribs, and vertebra of the deer {Cervus vir- 

 (jlinianus. The humerus and femur of the wild turkey were found intact, 

 also two femora of the beaver, the ulna of a large bird not identified, 



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Fig. 21. Earthen pot, from mound near Naples, lU. 



and the ulna of a small feline probably the skunk. All these fragments 

 were found mixed with ashes and pieces of charcoal, indicating plainly 

 that they are the remains of a feast. No fragmentary bones were met 

 with, and nothing to indicate cannibalism. Of the other mounds of this 

 vicinity only one was explored. This was No. 15, which is about 60 

 feet in diameter and 6 feet high. A shaft about 8 feet square was sunk 



(* Explorations of the Aboriginal Eeinains oj T&nnessee. By Joseph Jones (Smithsonian 

 Contributions io Knowledge, vol. XXII, p. 61.) 



