238 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
broken off during the period when the vessel was in use; a hole drilled in the 
extension remaining intact indicates that the broken one had a similar perforation, 
the two holes taking the place of the handles. This vessel, after restoration 
of the broken extension, is shown in Fig. 25. 
Fic. 24.— Bottle of earthenware. Baugh’s Landing, Ala. (Height 9 inches.) 
A number of vessels of this class (which seems to be found principally in nor- 
thern Alabama), though varying considerably in detail, was found by us, all 
somewhat broken, though restorations have been made, and will be described 
and figured by us in the course of our report on that part of Tennessee river 
which flows through Alabama. 
Burial No. 23, adolescent, had at the neck forty-nine small, discoidal beads 
apparently made from fresh-water musselshells, and a shell pendant fashioned 
from the columella of a conch (Busycon) pointed at one end, blunt at the other 
end which has a transverse hole for suspension. 
The pots from this place, coarse, shell-tempered ware, were nearly all badly 
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