ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 317 
Burial No. 21, a child having shell beads at the neck. 
Burial No. 27, partly flexed to the left, small shell beads at each wrist, also 
on the pelvis where, in addition, was a discoidal bead of indurated shale, 1.4 
inch in diameter and .6 inch in thickness, having a central perforation; small 
beads also were near the knees. 
Burial No. 28, adolescent, part of the skeleton showing disturbance, though 
no cause was apparent. At the right elbow were four vessels of very coarse, 
shell-tempered ware; a small, undecorated one within a pot having no decoration; 
an undecorated bowl and a bottle having rudely incised around the body a 
current scroll entwining a series of knobs. 
Fic. 61.—Bowl of earthenware. Near the Cox Mound, Ala. (Diam. 13.7 inches.) 
Burial No. 30, a child having pierced Marginella shells at the neck. 
Burials hitherto undescribed were as follows: adults, closely flexed on the 
right, 2; closely flexed on the left, 1; closely flexed to the left, 1; partly flexed 
to the right, 1; partly flexed to the left, 2; partly flexed on the right, 1; adoles- 
cents, partly flexed to the right, 1; partly flexed on the left, 1; children, 3; a 
disturbed burial. 
Articles placed with the dead at this place seemed to be in the main objects 
wrought from shell, though one could wish the fashion had been more compre- 
hensive. A marked feature was the attention shown to children, for while but 
three out of fifteen adults had artifacts in association, six children out of nine 
had been thus favored. 
Found in the digging, but apart from burials, were: two bowls, undecorated 
and of very coarse ware, one within the other; parts of a gorget of shell, probably 
scattered by some disturbance, which, restored as to a small part not recovered 
