330 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
A curious feature connected with this burial was that between its back and 
the oblique slabs was a space which had been filled by placing side by side, 
their upper surfaces exposed, two large fragments of the skull-cap of another 
skeleton. These also show in the photograph, as they, too, were without covering 
of slabs. The fragments were of a darker shade than the skeleton, apparently 
through long exposure or the result of a stain. 
Burial No. 31, partly flexed on the left, was the only one from this mound 
whose skull was in a condition to save. 
Burial No. 32, in the sloping side of the mound, was a pit 3 feet 4 inches 
deep, the lower part 3 feet 9 inches long and 2 feet 9 inches in width, very dis- 
tinctly marked and sharply rectangular, though it could not be determined 
with certainty whether the pit began at the surface or somewhat below it. On 
the base of this pit lay a skeleton closely flexed on the left, the right humerus 
extending along the thorax, the forearm closely flexed on the humerus; the 
left arm and forearm arranged in like manner except they lay below the thorax. 
Above the skeleton, to a depth of about 10 inches, the grave had been filled 
with musselshells and masses of rock, having no admixture of soil. Above 
the skull, but having a layer of shells between, were three masses of fossiliferous, 
silieious vein material, one about the size of a child's head, one about five times 
larger, and one intermediate. The upper surfaces of these masses were in line 
with the top of the shell deposit. About at the level of their bases was a slab 
of limestone 1 foot 8 inches by 1 foot 2 inches, by 2 inches in thickness, having 
shells above it and below it. To one side of this slab was a somewhat smaller 
one of the same material, at a slightly lower level. On top of the shells was a 
small mass of rock. None of these slabs or masses was in contact with the bones. 
Burial No. 34, extended on the back, lay almost at the center of the mound, 
on or slightly above the base. No mark of fire was near it, though at one spot 
the pelvis was charred and the upper part of the skull lay in fragments, badly 
burnt, the lower jaw, however, being intact. This burial lay but a short dis- 
tance from the deposit of calcined bones, and may have been affected by the 
fire that reduced them, which, however, must have been elsewhere than in the 
mound. 
The other burials in the mound consisted of twenty-nine adults and seven 
children, disposed as follows: at full length on the back, closely flexed on the 
right and on the left, closely flexed to the right, partly flexed on the right and 
on the left, partly flexed to the right. 
No attempt at orientation was noticeable in the burials in this mound. 
Besides objects already described in connection with burials, there were 
found: small bits of mica near the skull of an adult skeleton; two arrowheads 
of flint, one at the pelvis of an adult burial, one near the shoulder of another; 
a few Bodlydecnyed shell beads near the neck of a child. 
Apart from the burials described, but often near scattered bones, were: 
seven beads of shell, found together; fifteen arrowheads or in some instances 
