250 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
southern end nearest to it, was a grave running SSE. and NNW., and about 
at right angles from the long axis of the other grave. 
The grave under description, 9 feet 9 inches long, 2 feet 9 inches wide at the 
southern, or head, end, broadening somewhat toward the feet, extended 2 feet 
into otherwise undisturbed clay. On the base of the grave was a skeleton ex- 
tended on the back, the skull 19 inches from the end of the grave, having the 
front teeth, the chin, and cervical vertebre dyed light green and olive green 
variously by earbonate of copper from thirty-six beads of sheet-copper, some 
tubular, some barrel-shaped, all comparatively small except one which is about 
1.25 inch inlength. Over the skull was à shell drinking-cup in fragments, 
also much decayed, and another shell cup and a mass of clay were about 6 inches 
distant. On the thorax was a mass of galena about the size of à child's fist, 
and on the trunk, above the pelvis, another mass somewhat larger. At the 
foot end of the grave was a mass of clay. 
A careful search over the great site, including many fields making up this 
property, resulted in a considerable collection of lanceheads, arrowheads, and 
knives of flint. No triangular arrowheads were found, nor was a single frag- 
ment of pottery picked up on the surface or discovered in the mounds, though 
it was present on nearby Koger's Island. 
DwELLING-SITE NEAR CANE CREEK, COLBERT COUNTY, ALABAMA. 
Beginning at the mouth of Cane creek and extending down along the bank of 
Tennessee river, on property belonging to Mr. R. M. Garner, who resides about 
a mile back in the hills, is à dwell- 
ing-site where a small amount of 
work was done by us, resulting in 
the eonvietion on our part that 
burials in the site must be widely 
separated. Oneskeleton was found, 
however, with no artifacts in asso- 
ciation, which proved to be of in- 
terest as presenting an unusual 
form of burial. The body had 
been bent and flattened, the head 
resting upon the pelvis, the right 
Fic. 29.— Burial near mouth of Cane Creek, Ala. humerus was parallel to the side of 
The trunk and the extremities are in the same plane. the body, the forearm being closely 
flexed upon it, the left humerus 
was extended, the elbow being beyond the head, the forearm flexed, with the 
hand under the head. The femora were in the same plane as the rest of the 
skeleton, but widely separated, the legs closely flexed against them, as shown 
in Fig. 29. 
To one looking down into the grave, the burial, flattened out on one plane, 
with its various projections, presented a curious appearance. 
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