304 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
perforation as shown in Fig. 53. At the left of the skull was a mass of red pig- 
ment, hematite, and various small fragments of mica were on the thorax and 
left shoulder! 
Burial No. 5. At the bottom of a pit, 5 feet 9 inches from the surface, was 
an arrangement of slabs and masses of rock, limestone, sandstone, quartzite, 
in double thickness in some instances, rudely oblong but tapering somewhat 
at one end. This aggregation of slabs and masses was 34 inches in length, 
14 inches and 9 inches across the ends, respectively; its depth from the surface 
was 3 feet 10 inches. 
FrG..53.— Ceremonial axe. With Burial No. 4.@ Pine Island, Ala. (Full size.) 
Lying transversely at the wider end was the skeleton of an infant, and, in 
addition, with its feet toward the back of the first burial and in part under the 
same arrangement of stones, which was without interval and undoubtedly made 
at the same time, was the skeleton of an older child, closely flexed, its lower 
extremities and the lower part of the trunk covered by the stones, the remainder 
of the bones extending out from one side of the arrangement of stones, though 
a space 16 inches in length under one end of the arrangement was unoceupied, 
as shown in Fig. 54. Evidently the burials had been placed in the bottom of 
the pit and perhaps covered with a few inches of earth, and presumably the 
arrangement of the stones, though well-intended, had not followed the position 
of one of the bodies. 
Burial No. 9, a skeleton closely flexed on the left side, lying slightly in a 
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