268 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
having the head of a bird and a conventional tail on opposite sides by way of 
decoration. At the left humerus was a bowl with a beaded margin. An un- 
decorated bottle in fragments and a large pot lay along the left shoulder and 
elbow. 
Burial No. 35, a child. Small shell beads were at the neck, and at the right 
side was a pot having two loop-handles, knobs being on the handles and around 
the margin of the vessel, in which were two spoons carved from musselshells. 
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Fic. 42.— Vessel of earthenware. With Burial No. 49. Mason Island, Ala. (Height 6.6 inches.) 
Burial No. 37, partly flexed to the left. At the right shoulder was an un- 
decorated pot having two loop-handles. The skull of this burial was saved. 
Judging from the appearance of the bones at this site, their condition was ex- 
cellent, but a kind of dry rot seemed to have affected them and comparatively 
few were in à condition to save. 
Burial No. 38, a child. On the thorax was a small conchshell (Busycon 
pyrum), its beak toward the chin of the skeleton, it evidently having hung in 
that position with the aid of a small perforation at the end of the beak. With 
it was a shell spoon. 
Burial No. 39, closely flexed on the right, in a grave elliptical in outline, 
3 feet 10 inches long by 2 feet 10 inches in maximum width and 4 feet deep, 
was a skeleton without accompanying artifacts, details of whose burial we in- 
clude as it was the only unmistakable grave found in the site. 
