316 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
unusual feature. This design is of a well-known class described and figured 
by Putnam! and exhaustively treated by Holmes,’ on which is represented a 
figure made up of lines symmetrically looped at the corners, which Holmes 
points out as similar in shape to one found in a Mexican codex. Enclosed in 
this interesting square often are crosses and sun-symbols. Invariably at each 
of the four sides of the square is the head of a bird, presumably the ivory-bill 
woodpecker, of which we have had considerable to say in connection with our 
work at Moundville? Ala. The Canada Indians made coronets of these 
bills for their chiefs and paid two or even three deerskins for a single bill, not having 
the birds in their cold climate. 
Shell beads, twenty-one in all, oblate-spheroidal, the largest having a diameter 
of .7 inch, lay with the gorget and at the right wrist. 
Burial No. 6, the trunk on the back, the thighs diagonally upward to the 
left, the legs closely flexed on the thighs. 
Burial No. 7, a deposit of bones the upper part of which, near the surface, 
may in part have been plowed away. "Twelve skulls, one of which was saved, 
were recovered from it, and seventeen pairs of femora, having belonged to four- 
teen adults, one adolescent, two children. "With this deposit were Marginella 
shells used as beads, many of which were within a skull. 
Burial No. 9, at a depth of 3 feet to the upper surface, in contact, lay two 
masses of ferruginous sandstone, each about 5 inches thick, covering a space 
28 inches by 16 inches, on which lay the bones of a young infant having pierced 
Marginella shells at the neck and thorax. 
Burial No. 12, the trunk in a semi-reclining position, the head uppermost, 
bent over and resting against the knees, the thighs being vertical and having 
the legs closely flexed against them. The right humerus was alongside the body, 
the forearm at a right angle to it, at the side of the pelvis; the left humerus lay 
downward along the thorax, the forearm partly flexed and crossing the pelvis. 
Burial No. 14, partly flexed on the right, having shell beads at the upper 
part of the thorax. 
Burial No. 17, reclining against the side of the pit, the thighs closely flexed 
on the trunk, the legs against the thighs, the right arm and forearm along the 
trunk, the left arm along the thorax, the forearm closely flexed on it. 
Burial No. 18, partly flexed to the left, having shell beads from below the 
knees to the ankles. 
Burial No. 19, the trunk lying on the back, the thighs flexed diagonally 
upward to the left, the legs closely flexed on them; the humeri alongside the 
body, the forearms slightly flexed, bringing the hands on the pelvis. 
Burial No. 20, a child having marine shells (Olivella), used as beads and 
mingled with other shell beads at the neck. 
1 Eleventh Ann. Rep. Peabody Museum, р. 308 et seq. 
? “Art in Shell of the Ancient Americans," p. 280 et seq., Plates ТУШІ, LIX. 
? "Certain Aboriginal Remains of the Black Warrior River," Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Vol. 
XIII, p. 138 et[seq., et al. 
