ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 363 
Burial No. 2, partly flexed to the left, depth 49 inches. A pot of coarse 
ware with rude decoration of elementary design lay near the skull. 
Burial No. 3, depth 4 feet, lay at length, face down as far as the knees, the 
legs being closely flexed against the thighs, the forearms and arms parallel to 
the body. 
Burial No. 4, a skeleton in a grave-pit 52 inches deep, closely flexed, the 
pelvis at the bottom of the pit, the body bent above it so that the head lay 
over and upon the pelvis. The thighs were in an almost vertical position, the 
legs flexed against them. The skull of this skeleton was saved. 
Burial No. 5, a skeleton partly flexed to the left, there being a depth of 43 
inches to the upper surface of the bones, our method of measuring such burials. 
The right arm and forearm were parallel to the trunk; the left humerus was 
against the side of the body, the forearm flexed on it. At the neck were three 
tubular, brass beads, much corroded, and a disc of brass (the reader will note 
we are describing a post-Columbia site) slightly more than 3 inches in diameter, 
having a central opening .8 inch across. 
Burial No. 6 lay in a grave 40 inches down, the trunk on the back, the thighs 
vertical, at right angles to the body, the legs flexed against them. The humeri 
were parallel to the trunk, the forearms lying aeross it. Near the chin lay 
an iron celt 2.5 inches in length. Alongside the skull was a layer of powdered 
hematite, about 8 inches in diameter and 1 inch in maximum thickness, in which 
lay a tubular bead of brass. On the upper part of the thorax was a boss of sheet- 
copper about 4 inches in diameter, having a small central perforation, which 
evidently had been suspended by many strung glass beads which, including two 
tubular beads of brass, each about 1 inch in length, were at the neck. Glass 
beads also were at the left elbow. An arrowhead or knife lay near the right 
wrist, and two deposits of arrowpoints of flint, three in one deposit, two in the 
other, were near the pelvis. None of these points was less than an inch in 
length. 
Burial No. 7, a child, 53 inches down. 
Burial No. 8, a partial burial consisting of a skull without the lower jaw, a 
femur and a tibia, together, under unbroken layers. 
Burial No. 9, a skeleton which Burial No. 6 had cut through, leaving bones 
from the pelvis up only. With this burial was a deposit of powdered hematite 
11 inches by 8 inches, and 1 inch in maximum thickness, with which was a tubular 
bead of sheet-brass. At the side of the skull were two discs of brass, placed 
vertieally together, while two others of the same material lay horizontally be- 
neath the chin. Near the skull was a tubular bead of bone 1.7 inch in length, 
and behind the skull the remains of a large marine shell (Cassis tuberosa), the 
interior of which had been removed to form a cup. 
The dises, one pair about 4.25 inches in diameter, the other pair slightly 
larger, all had central openings ranging between 1 inch and 1.5 inch in diameter, 
one of the larger dises having in addition four small perforations in a row. The 
skull of this skeleton was saved. 
