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pigment, uniting at the base and neck. The summit terminates in a bulb-shaped 

 mouth. The height of tliis vessel is 9.| inches ; circuniference of the neck 6 

 inches ; circumference of the body 24 inches. 



This grave was partially covered with the stump and roots of a large tree, which 

 we judged from an examination of the remaining portion not to have been less than 

 two centuries old at the time of its removal, about twenty years ago. 



On the west of the central grave a stone grave, eiglit and a half feet long 

 and widest at the head, was found, inclosing a large skeleton with the feet 

 toward the east. A singular vessel fashioned in the shape of a child's foot and 

 leg, with the aperture in the heel, and with a protuberance in the rounded surface 

 encircling the thigh, lay on the left side of the skull. This vase appears to have 

 been painted, but it was impossible to make out the markings, and in washing off 

 the adherent earth the faint lines disappeared. Its height is 8.6 inches. 



A small stone grave by the side of the one just described contained tlie skeleton 

 of a child only a few years old at the time of its death, and also the following 

 relics : — 



Four large sea-shells, one on each side of the skeleton, another at the foot, and 

 the fourth, a large specimen with the interior compartments cut out and the 

 exterior surface carved, covered the face and forehead of the skull (Fig. 29). 

 Among the markings on this shell, we distinguish triangles, parallel straight lines, 



Fiff 28. 



Fig. 29. 



Fig. 3U. 



Fig. 28. Vase from a stone grave in a burial mound on the Big Harpeth River, two and a half railes above 

 Franklin, Tennessee. One-half natural size. 



Fig. 20. Carved sea-shell from a stone grave in a burial mound within the line of .ancient works on the Big 

 Harpeth River, two and a half miles above Franklin, Tennessee. About one-fourth natunal size. 



Fig. 30. Carvings on the sea-shell Pig. 29. 



