ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 261 
Burial No. 12, a young child. A stain from a salt of copper was on the face. 
This skeleton lay with that of an adult, the skull of the child at the knees of the 
other burial and directed toward the feet. 
Burial No. 16, partly flexed on the left. An ear-plug of the pin-shaped 
variety and of considerable length lay at each side of the skull, at the right of 
which was a rude pot having two loop-handles, and coarse, lined decoration on 
the body. Near the top of the head was a vessel in fragments, having had four 
equidistant knobs around the opening. Near the chin was a shell gorget, scal- 
Fic. 35.—Earthenware vessel coated with carbonate of lime. With Burial No. 16. Mason 
‚ Island, Ala. (Height 8 inches.) 
loped and bearing a triskele design on one side, rather carelessly executed. 
Alongside the left shoulder was an undecorated pot having two loop-handles 
and containing a pair of spoons carved from musselshells. 
At the outer side of the left humerus stood a bottle having a spherical body, 
the base flattened, 8 inches in height and 9.6 inches in maximum diameter 
(Fig. 35). The neck of this bottle, having a diameter of 3.1 inches, apparently 
had been broken off in part, and the remainder, .8 inch in height, had been smoothed 
along the line of fracture. Probably but little of the neck had been lost, however, 
as a bottle similar in shape, having a comparatively short neck, was found at 
