ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 315 
This clay did not mark the site of fires made above the graves, but had been 
brought from elsewhere, as the clay and the ashes were sometimes mingled. 
Thirty burials (fifteen adults, four adolescents, nine children, one disturbance, 
one large deposit of bones) were encountered east of the mound. We shall 
describe in detail all having artifacts in association, as well as burials having 
other features of interest. 
Burial No. 1, à young child having at the right forearm twenty-six shells 
(Oliva sayana) pierced for use as beads. At the left of the head was an undeco- 
rated pot of about two quarts’ capacity, alongside which was a small, undecorated 
Fic. 60.—Gorget of shell. With Burial No. 4. Near the Cox mound, Ala. (About full size.) 
one, evidently intended for a child, having over the opening, a large musselshell 
which fell to bits on removal. In connection with this burial was the reddened 
clay we have described, mingled with which were fragments of matting, sug- 
gesting the remains of a wigwam. 
Burial No. 3, an infant lying immediately beneath a mass of stone completely 
covering the remains, no great space being required as the thigh-bone of the 
little skeleton was but 3.25 inches in length. At the neck were shell beads. 
Burial No. 4, adolescent, partly flexed to the left, the trunk slanting diag- 
onally up the aide of the grave. At each ear was the columella of a conch having 
the upper whorls of the spire still upon it, which had been used as an ear-orna- 
ment by being thrust through the lobe of the ear. At the beak of one of them 
is a perforation. 
Near the left humerus, where no doubt it had fallen from the chest, was a 
shell gorget (Fig. 60), the design engraved on the convex side, a somewhat 
