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ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 263 
Burial No. 21, an infant. Near the skull were five shell beads and two shell 
ear-plugs of the pin variety, each .9 inch in length. One of these minute orna- 
ments was found in place, but the other, disturbed by a blow of a spade in its 
neighborhood, required work with a sieve for its recovery. 
Ета. 36.—Ornaments of wood, copper-coated. With Burial No. 22. Mason Island, Ala. (Full 
size.) 
Burial No. 22, a child. At the feet were two hollow, wooden ornaments, 
copper-coated, containing small pebbles, shown in Fig. 36, one open, the other 
as found. 
Mr. Charles C. Willoughby considers these ornaments to be representations 
of the pod of the milkweed plant. This type of ornament was found by us in 
the mound on the Bennett Place, below Chattanooga, and also in a mound in 
Arkansas. Herewith is given a note on the subject of ornaments of this class, 
kindly prepared for this report by Mr. Willoughby. 
* Dear Mr. Moore: In the Peabody Museum of Harvard University are 
two pairs of ear pendants similar to those of which you send photographs; they 
are, however, without expanding tips. Each pendant of the first pair is per- 
forated near the larger end, and closely resembles the one obtained by you 
from a mound in Calhoun Co., Arkansas, and which you figured on page 93 
of the report of the Antiquities of the Ouachita Valley. They were obtained 
by Mr. Edwin Curtis in 1878 while working for the Museum, and are described 
and illustrated on pages 112-113, volume III, of the Peabody Museum Reports. 
Professor Putnam says: ‘They are made of wood which, after being carefully 
shaped and smoothed, was split lengthwise for the purpose of making a symmetri- 
са] and smooth oval cavity. . . . In the cavity small pebbles of quartz were 
placed, . . . which would give a slight jingling sound as the head of the wearer 
was moved about. The two pieces were then put together and held in place 
