284 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
Burial No. 5, a grave extending 2 feet into undisturbed, yellow sand, its 
depth being 4 feet 8 inches, contained remains of a skeleton partly flexed to the 
right. At the left of the skull, together, were a deposit consisting of four dis- 
eoidal stones, each about 1.2 inch in diameter, one having a small depression 
on one side; a lump of carbonate of lime; two small masses of graphitic material, 
Fie. 48.— Bottle of earthenware. With Burial No. 3. McKee Island, Ala. (Height 5.3 inches.) 
each showing smoothed surfaces whence probably parts had been ground off for 
use as paint; three beautiful, triangular arrowheads of flint, ranging between 
1.8 ineh and 1.1 inch in length, the two largest having long, tapering points 
and serrated, the smallest similar but to a modified extent. 
Burial No. 6, partly flexed on the right. 
In this rise also were two arrangements of small masses and slabs, each being 
about 20 inches by 2 feet, beneath which no burials were found. 
With no burials visibly in association were: a beautiful ceremonial axe 
(Fig. 49), probably of igneous rock, having a blemish on the side opposite the 
one shown in the illustration, 7.1 inches in length and 2.4 inches across the 
eutting edge, having the perforation usual in these pieces; an undecorated pot 
with two loop-handles; a beautiful little implement of flint with expanding 
blade and curved cutting edge, 2.6 inches in length. 
