ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 269 
Burial No. 40, closely flexed to the left. At the left of the skull was a bowl 
having had the effigy of a head rising from the rim and a conventional tail on 
the opposite side. With this was a pot having four horizontal projections 
from the rim. The skull of this burial was in condition to keep. 
Burial No. 41, partly flexed to the right. At the pelvis was a large bowl, a 
cooking vessel covered with soot, having four horizontal projections near the 
rim, ornamented with small notches on the outer margins. 
Fic. 43.— Vessel of earthenware. Mason Island, Ala. (Height 4.1 inches.) 
Burial No. 42, partly flexed to the right. At the right humerus was a dis- 
coidal of jasper breccia, 3.5 inches in diameter. This stone has an effective 
appearance, not through excellence of treatment but owing to its component 
parts, some of which are yellow, others red, the setting of all being chocolate 
in.shade. At the right elbow was a discoidal of limestone, 2.5 inches in diameter. 
Burial No. 45, closely flexed to the left. At the left shoulder and elbow 
was a large pot having a number of horizontal projections around the rim, and 
another pot decorated in the same way with knobs. 
Burial No. 49, a young child. At the pelvis was a vessel having two pro- 
jections from the rim at opposite sides, under each of which was a loop-handle. 
Around the upper part of the vessel are four encircling, parallel rows of knobs 
(Fig. 42). This vessel belongs to a class which, as we have before said, seems 
to be frequently met with in northern Alabama. А 
In the digging, away from bones, were: а vessel of earthenware (Fig. 43); 
ten arrowheads and knives of flint, found singly, four of which are triangular 
