MOUNDS, FORTIFICATIONS, AND EARTIIWOUKS. 



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Graves and burial mounds are also found at and near Brentwood ; and from one 

 of the stone graves of this locality I obtained the snudl vase or drinking cup, 

 fashioned like a river shell, represented in outline in Fig. 3. 



This specimen is 5^ inches in the longest diameter. 



Fig. 3. 



Pig. 4. 



Pig. 6. 



Pig. 3. Drinking cup, composed of dark clay and crushed sliells, from a stone grave near Brentwood, Tennessee. 

 About one-half the natural size. 



Fig. 4. Hollow image composed of clay and crushed shells, from a stone grave in a burial mound, near Brent- 

 wood, Tennessee. One-half the natural size. 



The small image represented in Fig. 4 was, in like manner, exhumed from a stone 

 grave at Brentwood. 



This object is 41 inches in height, and represents a human figure in a sitting 

 posture, with the hands on the knees. The breast and back of tlie figure resemble 

 those of human beings in whom the spine has been 

 diseased and curved. 



From a stone grave situated upon the slope of the 

 hill on which stands the residence of Colonel W. D 

 Gale, near Nashville, I exhumed a small image repre- 

 senting a short deformed female in a kneeling posture. 

 It will be seen from the outline figure of this image, 

 Fig. 5, that the nose is prominent, the forehead retreat- 

 ing, and that the head is ornamented with a crown. 

 This image is composed of clay and crushed shells, is 

 hollow within, and 4.3 inches in height. 



Sacrificial and Burial Mounds. 



Some of the burial mounds were evidently used also 

 for religious purposes. Thus in a small mound, about 

 one hundred feet in diameter, and about ten feet high, 

 which I explored on the eastern bank of the Cumberland 

 River, opposite the city of Nashville, across from the 

 mouth of Lick branch, at the foot of a large mound, 



6 February, 1876. 



Small image, representing a 

 short deformed female in a kneel- 

 ing posture, composed of crushed 

 sliells and dark clay, frcm a stone 

 grave situated on the slope of the 

 hill, above the spring, near the 

 residence of Colonel W. D. Gale, 

 a short distance from Nashville, 

 Tennessee. 



