306 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
In that part of the ridge investigated by us were twenty burials: nine of adults, 
one of an adolescent, ten of infants or of older children. Seven adults and 
one adolescent had been buried in forms of flexion. One adult lay extended 
on the back, while one rested at length as far as the knees, the legs being closely 
flexed against the thighs. 
Burials Nos. 19, a child, and 28, adult, flexed, had each a shell ear-plug of 
the pin variety in place at either side of the head. In addition, the latter burial 
had under the chin a shell gorget 2.7 inches by 2.2 inches with excised spaces 
and an engraved design on the concave side representing a rattlesnake (Fig. 55), 
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Fig. 55.—Shell gorget, rattlesnake design. With Burial No. 28. Pine Island, Ala. (About 
full size.) 
not the conventional serpent such as we sometimes see on gorgets from Tennessee, 
but an attempt to portray the snake, similar to some we have found and to those 
shown by Holmes in Plates LXII and LXV of his * Art in Shell." The specimen 
found at this place, however, is the rudest attempt of the kind with which we 
are familiar. 
Burial No. 20, flexed, had quantities of beads made from the marine shell 
Marginella, these particular shells seemingly having been selected, as their 
average size is unusually large. They are in excellent condition. Under the 
left shoulder was a celt of iron or of steel, 3.25 inches in length, and a tomahawk 
of the same material showing where the handle had been at the back, the blade 
expanding to a cutting edge. | : 
Burial No. 22, a child extended on the back, had at one side of the skull à 
rude bowl with a small degree of incised decoration around the opening, and 
at the other side of the skull, a pot with two loop-handles, undecorated save 
for four knobs around the body. In this vessel was a musselshell (Unio). At 
one side of the head was an ear-ornament of the shell-pin kind, its companion 
lying broken under the skull. An undecorated bowl having two loop-handles 
rested on the thighs. 
Burial No. 23, a child having at the neck twenty shell beads ranging in length 
