MYER] THE FEWKES GROUP 603 
RECTANGULAR STONE GRAVE PEOPLE 
A few graves of a later and different people were found on the 
adjoining hillside, to the west of the Fewkes group, in a cultivated 
field west of the garden and dwelling of the present owner, Mr. J. H. 
Womack. These people were drawn to this site by the fine springs 
of the old Fewkes group; but they chose the hillside to the west of 
the springs rather than the site formerly occupied by the flexed-burial 
people. These two springs are shown in Plate 136, a. The one 
known as Boiling Spring, because its clear waters formerly bubbled 
up through a layer of sand, causing a boiling appearance, gave its 
name to Boiling Spring Academy, which is on this ancient flexed- 
burial site. The other bold and cold, clear spring, in the cool shadows 
of the stone and white lattice spring house, has dark rocks covered 
with moss all around its deep basin. The water comes from crevices 
in these moss-covered stones. 
The Cherokees have a beautiful belief in regard to springs. The 
ancient inhabitants have no doubt sat by this spring flowing out of 
the mysterious crevices of the rocks and listened to the story of the 
other world to which such springs as this are the gateways. The 
version here given is from Mr. James Mooney’s ‘‘Myths of the 
Cherokee,” Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American 
Ethnology, page 240. 
There is another world under this, and it is like ours in everything—animals, 
plants, and people—save that the seasons are different. The streams that come 
down from the mountains are the trails by which we reach this underworld, and 
the springs at their heads are the doorways by which we enter it, but to do this 
one must fast and go to water and have one of the underground people for a 
guide. We know that the seasons in the underworld are different from ours, 
because the water in the springs is always warmer in winter and cooler in summer 
than the outer air. 
RECTANGULAR STONE GRAVES 
Only three graves belonging to this later band of the rectangular- 
stone-grave people were found in the aforementioned cultivated field 
to the west of Mr. Womack’s barn and garden. ‘There is evidence 
to show that a few other similar graves have been destroyed by the 
plow in this field. Erosion and cultivation have caused these graves 
to be brought so near the surface that they are now struck by the 
plow. 
GRAVE A 
The first of these graves uncovered was grave A. It was 90 feet 
west of the Womack barn, since burned. It was a rectangular stone- 
slab grave, 40 inches long, 13 inches wide at east end, and 14 inches 
at west end. It ran W. 10° S. Top of coffin was 7 inches under 
present surface of the soil. The bottom of this coffin was lined with 
fragments of domestic pottery, neatly fitted together into a mosaic 
