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ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 345 
Within the grave was the unburnt skeleton of a child 8 or 9 years of age, 
extended on the back, the right arm and forearm being alongside the body, the 
left forearm across the trunk. 
Between the top of the skull and the slab at the head of the grave was a 
space 9.5 inches in length in which was a bowl about 6.8 inches in diameter, 
resting upright on a rude undecorated pot. In the bowl was a spoon carved 
from a musselshell, which rested on another. In the spoon were four barrel- 
shaped beads of shell, each about .5 inch in length. The space to be occupied 
by the vessel presumably had not been taken into account when the grave was 
constructed, consequently the legs of the skeleton projected beyond the foot of 
the grave; hence the absence of the foot-stone. 
This bowl, shown in Plate VIII, Fig. 1, is of special interest in that it has 
had a striking design painted in red on a background of yellow slip, the nature of 
the design differing entirely from anything found or heard of by us along Tennes- 
see river except between the Bennett Place and Citico creek, about thirty miles 
farther up, where fragments of vessels of this kind were found, as was also the 
case at the White Place, an intermediate point. We have been unable to learn, 
though the foremost authorities have been consulted, that designs of the kind 
on this vessel and on the other bowl from this mound have been discovered else- 
where in the State of Tennessee. Evidently vessels of this kind belonged to a 
culture local and restricted in area. The designs shown in the illustration 
appear three times on the vessel. The white evident on the vessel in places 
is not, we think, due to color applied by the aborigines, but possibly resulted 
from exposure to heat, though not at the time of the fire ceremony in this mound. 
Burial No. 33, closely flexed on the right, having below it a bone implement 
badly burnt. 
Burial No. 34, closely flexed on the left. 
Burial No. 35, partly flexed to the right, having a flint knife, pointed, 7.25 
inches in length. 
Burial No. 36, partly flexed to the left. 
Burial No. 37, extended on the back. 
Burial No. 38, partly flexed to the left. 
Burial No. 39, partly flexed to the right. The upper part of this skeleton 
was burnt, the extremities projecting beyond the clay. At the outer side of the 
knees was a hatchet of silicious material, 4.25 inches in length. Lying trans- 
versely on charred matting, under the right humerus, just above the elbow, the 
edge away from the body, was a celt of indurated shale, 5.75 inches in length. 
A small, undecorated vessel in fragments was on the upper part of the thorax. 
At the right side of the neck was a pin of bone having a blunt point, a hair-pin, 
perhaps, under an implement of indurated shale, 4.5 inches long, having a blunt 
edge. At the neck of the burial were a few discoidal shell beads. 
Burials Nos. 40 and 41, partly flexed on the right. 
Burial No. 42, adolescent, partly flexed on the left. 
34 JOURN. A. М. 8. PHILA., VOL. XVI. 
