256 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
separately, as were three earthenware vessels, broken, like all from this place, 
two of the class having oblique extensions and loop-handles with knobs, one of 
which is shown in Fig. 33, and one a small, undecorated bowl. 
Fie. 33.— Vessel of earthenware. Tick Island, Ala. (Height 5.3 inches.) 
Together and certainly a mortuary deposit whose burial had gone through 
decay, 5 feet deep, were twenty-five masses of galena, some rounded, the largest 
about the size of a goose-egg; two fragments of flint; several masses of clay, 
not pure clay such as we often see described in this report in connection with 
burials, but having a considerable admixture of sand. 
Four slabs lay together near the surface of the mound and evidently 
had been disturbed by previous digging, an unfortunate occurrence, for if a 
stone grave had been present in this region it would be interesting to 
know it. 
An excavation 10 feet square, in the extension, came upon traces of a skull 
near which were traces of femora and tibi: in order, all in a position indicating 
a flexed burial. On the base, 3 feet 10 inches deep, were traces of a skull and 
of other bones. Above the skull lay a very rude, agricultural implement of 
shale, 1 foot 4.5 inches in length and 5.25 inches wide. With it were two frag- 
ments of flint. 
