246 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
To Prof. W. K. Moorehead we are indebted for the information that one of 
these ceremonials from a mound at Newark, Ohio, is in the collection of Phillips 
Academy, Andover, Mass. In a note accompanying a tracing of this ornament, 
written some time ago by Mr. К. S. Peabody, we are told, “Objects of this form 
are very unusual in stone and only one or two of copper are in the museums." 
Evidently this class of ceremonial ornament hitherto has been but little 
known, presumably because its vogue was principally among the aborigines 
of northern Alabama, where there has been so little archeological research. 
We have examined the handsome, reel-shaped ceremonial of copper in the 
small but interesting collection of the University of Alabama, at University, 
Ala., near Tuscaloosa, which, owing to its size and the graceful, terminal expan- 
sion of the arms, is the most striking example of this class of objects of which we 
have knowledge (and we obtained nineteen of them in varying degrees of com- 
pleteness from mounds along Tennessee river in Alabama). We are under 
obligation to Prof. Eugene A. Smith, State Geologist of Alabama and member 
of the faculty of the University, for full details as to this ceremonial, which is 
nearly 6.5 inches by 8.5 inches, over all, and about .1 inch in thickness. It 
came from near the Coosa river in Coosa county, Ala., some distance south 
from where most of our objects of this kind were obtained. 
We were not able to decide positively on what part of the body these cere- 
monials were worn, as we found them both on the chest and on the pelvis of 
skeletons, and having the perforations sometimes in line with the burial and 
sometimes transverse to the skeleton. Usually, however, when determination 
was possible (and frequently it was not), the ornament lay on the chest, and 
the two perforations were across and not in line with the trunk. Several of our 
specimens, wrought from unusually thick material, are without perforations. 
Now to return to the burials. 
Burial No. 6, lying about midway on the base of the large grave which we 
have referred to at the beginning of the account of this mound, was what was 
left of a skeleton, extended face down. 
The grave, one side of which almost passed through the center of the base 
of the mound, was 9 feet 8 inches in length and 4 feet 4 inches in width. The 
depth of the grave from the top of the mound was 9 feet 8 inches. It extended 
through 9 inches of the midden soil already described and entered the undis- 
turbed, yellow clay to a depth of 2 feet 5 inches. 
Alongside the burial was a mass of pure gray clay, 8 feet long and 13 inches 
wide, increasing to 16 inches at the feet. Its thickness was about 5 inches 
down to the feet, which rested upon it. Beyond them it increased in thickness 
about 2 inches and contained masses of pure red clay. This clay deposit did 
not rest against the side of the grave, but lay 10 inches from the head wall and 
9 inches from the wall of the adjacent side. Its distance from the foot of the 
grave about corresponded with that of the head. 
At the right shoulder was a mass of galena, about five pounds in weight. 
