702 MOUND EXPLORATIONS. 



iilthongli iiicludmg only a portion of those wliicli have been discovered, 

 will indicate correctly the area over which they have been carried: 



Lick creek East Teunessee. ..from mound. 



Near Kuoxville East Tennessee. ..from moiiiul. 



Near Nashville Tennessee from mound. 



Near Nashville Tennessee from stone grave. 



Old Town Tennessee from mound. 



Franklin Tennessee from mound. 



Sevierville Tennessee from monnd. 



Uartow county Georgia from stone grave in mound. 



Monroe county East Tennessee. . . from mounds. 



Lee county Virginia from mounds. 



Virginia [county not known] from grave. 



Caldwell county North Carolina. . .from mound. 



Near Mussel-Shoals Alal)ama from cave. 



New Madrid , Missouri from mound. 



Union county Illinois from mound. 



St. Clair county Illinois from stone grave. 



One in the National Museum is marked " Mississippi," but the local- . 

 ity given is more than doubtful. 



In other words, they are found in all parts of Tennessee, except the 

 extreme western portion, in western North Carolina, in northern Georgia, 

 the extreme northern part of Alabama, southeastern Missouri, southern 

 Illinois, and in Virginia, particularly the extreme southwestern part; 

 but western North Carolina, eastern and middle Tennessee, especially 

 the Cumberland valley, are the places where they have been found in 

 the gxeatest numbers. 



Although having a somewhat extensive range, they do not appear to 

 be found, except in isolated cases, beyond the i)os.sible haunts of the 

 Cherokees and Shawnees. At least, with the exception of those found 

 in western North Carolina and eastei'n Tennessee, they pertain to the 

 works of the authors of the stone graves. It is worthy of note in this 

 connection that the " bird head " so common on one class of engraved 

 shells (found almost exclusively in the stone graves of middle Tennes- 

 see) appears also, and in the same type, both on stone and bone imple- 

 ments in New Jersey.' In regard to the former Dr. Abbott remarks 

 as follows : " Here we see a reference apparently to j ust such disks, 

 ;ind the interest in the reproduction of the same figures on other objects 

 found in New Jersey lies in the i)robable indication that there is in the 

 latter a trace at least of tribal relationship with the southern Indians. 

 Did we not learn from the writings of Heckwelder that the Lcnape had 

 "the turkey totem," we might suppose that this drawing of such bird 

 heads originated with intrusive southern Shawnees, who at one time 

 occupied lands in the Delaware valley and who are supposed by some 

 writers to have been closely related to the earliest inhabitants of the 

 southern and southwestern states. Inasmuch as we shall find that, 



' Abbott's Primitive Industry, pp. 71 and 207. 



