296 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
proved to be almost pure carbonate of lime. In the site on Mason Island, 
already described in this report, we have seen that this material was put to 
practical use. 
Burial No. 58, represented by crumbling crowns of teeth, so far as the skull 
was concerned, though traces of thigh-bones were discovered in place, near 
which were sixteen small masses of galena. Near the teeth was a copper celt 
3.2 inches in length and 1.3 inch across the cutting edge, two masses of galena, 
and fragments of an undecorated vessel of earthenware. This burial lay in 
the body of the mound 4 feet from the surface. 
Burial No. 59. On the base lay fragments of a skull having nearby fifty-one 
beads of copper (as in another deposit), each about .3 inch in transverse section 
and .2 inch in height. 
Burial No. 61. In the body of the mound were some particles of bone ap- 
parently preserved by the proximity of a copper celt 3.6 inches long and 1.7 
inch in maximum width. 
Burial No. 62, some fragments of bones lying almost immediately under 
Burial No. 61 and having in association a reel-shaped ornament of heavy sheet- 
copper, 5.5 inches by 5.2 inches, having two perforations. This ornament, 
which neither pick nor spade had approached, the earth near it having been 
removed with a trowel, had received about the center a furious blow, possibly 
the impact of an arrow or the thrust of a spear, and had been so nearly broken 
thereby that the two parts of it had divided when corrosion had set in, though 
they lay in complete contact in the ground. "The blow, of course, may have 
been à ceremonial one, but separation had not taken place previous to interment. 
Burial No. 64, fragments of bones in the body of the mound, accompanied 
by a celt of indurated shale, 10.75 inches in length, asymmetrical, and having 
various superficial depressions which a careful workman would have ground away. 
In the mound were encountered, in addition to that of the infant of which 
mention has been made, several empty graves, as follows, from which, beyond 
question, the bones of former occupants had disappeared through decay: a 
grave 7 feet long by about 2 feet in width, extending 1 foot 9 inches into undis- 
turbed clay beneath the base, contained nothing beyond a mass of galena 2.5 
inches by 2 inches by 1.5 inch, flat on two opposite sides, the circumference 
artificially rounded, and part of an arrowhead of flint; a small grave evidently 
intended for a child contained, when found, only a few small masses of galena; 
another small grave extending beneath the base, as did the others, held neither 
artifact nor trace of bone. 
In the body of themound had been aburial resembling Burial No. 10 in this 
mound, in that a skeleton evidently had been interred in sand and entirely 
differing from the material making up the mound. In this sand, in which no 
bones were found, were seventeen masses of galena and a reel-shaped ornament 
of thick, sheet-copper (Plate VI, Fig. 2), 3.1 inches by 2.8 inches, having two 
perforations. 
