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ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 283 
Between where the wigwam sites were investigated and the remnant of the 
mound, there was, on the ridge, a slight rise, but not of sufficient height or regu- 
larity to entitle it to be called a mound. Into this rise a large number of trial- 
holes were sunk by us, coming on six burials, as follows: 
Burial No. 1, partly flexed, the knees to the right, 32 inches down. At one 
side of the skull, or of what remained of it (for the burials in this place were 
Fic. 47.— Vessel of earthenware. With Burial No. 2. McKee Island, Ala. (Height 5.2 inches.) 
badly decayed), was an earthenware bowl, undecorated save for a rude effigy 
of a human head which projects above the margin, and having a conventional 
tail opposite. On the other side of the cranium was a pot, its body encircled 
with a line of rude knobs. 
Burial No. 2, a child, 2 feet deep, at the head being a stone having a natural 
formation consisting of a deep concavity. On the other side of the head were 
an undecorated bottle, and a pot having horizontal projections around the rim, 
which would serve to keep a cord in place (Fig. 47). 
Burial No. 3, partly flexed to the left. Near the skull was an undecorated 
bottle of excellent ware, having a wide mouth (Fig. 48). 
Burial No. 4, a child, having at the skull, which was stained at one place 
by salt of copper, a pot with two loop-handles, and glass beads in a friable con- 
dition. Near what probably had been the leg-bones lay a broken band of sheet- 
brass curved as for an anklet. 
