350 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
do many copper axes (Fig. 77). Axes of this kind in stone are uncommon, but 
are occasionally met. This one, however, is figured on a much larger scale 
than has been accorded before to this class of axes. With the axe were three 
arrowheads of flint. 
Burial No. 79, partly flexed on the right. "This burial had but a thin deposit 
of reddened clay above it, and in consequence was inconsiderably burnt. 
Burial No. 80, extended on the back. 
Fic. 77.— Ceremonial axe. With Burial No. 78. Bennett Place, Tenn. (Full size.) 
Burial No. 81, partly flexed to the right. "This skeleton lay beyond the 
red-clay deposit and was unburnt. 
Burial No. 82, extended on the back. 
Burial No. 83, at full length, face down. Shell beads were at the pelvis. 
A remarkable feature in connection with this burial was that the brain, much 
reduced in size but retaining its shape, was found in place in the skull, which 
lay in fragments. 
This interesting specimen was given by us to the Army Medical Museum, 
Washington, D. C. A letter expressing our willingness to publish a communi- 
cation in regard to it remains unacknowledged. | 
Burials Nos. 84 and 85, children, the latter skeleton having a large mussel- 
shell at the head, burnt and broken. 
Burial No. 86, a skull and a femur, unburnt, lying beneath a mass of sand- 
stone. 
Burial No. 87, extended on the back, the arms folded on the chest, the legs 
crossed near the ankles. This skeleton lay on the red deposit and showed no 
mark of fire. At the neck were 166 pearls pierced for use as beads. Shell beads 
