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ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 221 
. . . About the center of this burial space we struck something that looked like 
an arm in stone. For two hours we carefully excavated and dug, not daring to 
use any implement but our knives and fingers, and were rewarded by finding a 
pipe in human form, bent on one knee, the bowl and place for the mouth-piece 
in the back. It is about 10 inches high, carved apparently from either ‘Cat- 
linite,’ the ‘red-pipe stone of Minnesota,’ or a similar stone. It is the most per- 
fect piece of prehistoric carving that I have seen, much superior in artistic work 
to anything of the kind described and illustrated in Force, Short, Bancroft, 
Thruston and others, or that I have seen in various collections." 
This remarkable pipe, which, enlarged from an illustration taken from Records 
of the Past, is shown in Fig. 21, to which Colonel Cadle does no more than 
simple justice, is now in the office of the superintendent of Shiloh National Mili- 
tary Park at Pittsburg Landing, where it is exposed to fire, theft, and breakage. 
Its place is in the National Museum at Washington. 
MOUND NEAR NASH LANDING, HARDIN County, TENNESSEE. 
About half a mile above Nash Landing, in an open field, on property of 
Mr. O. C. Hagy, of Selmer, Tenn., is a mound reported by our agent, who 
estimated its height at 10 feet, to have been very badly dug away; hence the 
mound was not visited by us. 
MOUNDS BELOW NORTH CAROLINA LANDING, HARDIN County, TENNESSEE. 
In a cultivated field about one mile in a westerly direction from North Carolina 
Landing, on property belonging to Mr. John T. Morris, living somewhat farther 
back from the river, are two mounds about 60 yards apart. 
The larger mound has long been under cultivation and the furrows of the 
field in which it is are carried continuously over it in plowing, so that on two sides 
its slope has become very gradual. On a third side it has been in part cut away 
by a road. Its present height is about 7 feet; its diameters, about 100 feet and 
150 feet, approximately. The mound, which no doubt has been quadrangular, 
with flat top,—a domiciliary mound,—is of raw, yellow clay and yielded no sign 
of burial. 
The smaller mound, about 3 feet in height and 50 feet across its irregular 
base, has been plowed around—and probably over, though not under cultivation 
at the time of our visit—and has been mutilated by a roadway. This mound 
was carefully dug into in a number of places, though its composition, raw, 
yellow clay from the beginning, gave little hope of success. A base-line was 
reached at a depth of 3 feet 7 inches, but some of the holes were carried some- 
what farther. With the exception of a broken piercing implement of bone, no 
sign of man’s handiwork or of human remains was encountered. 
From the surface at this place was picked up an arrowhead of gray flint, 
1.9 inch in length, .8 inch in width, and having a maximum thickness of only 
.15 inch. 
