872 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
deep had been deposited in graves which could be traced almost from the surface 
down, and no doubt had been made from the surface, but the confusion arising 
from cultivation of the field made impossible a determination as to the upper 
few inches of the soil. 
The burials, whose heads were directed to various points of the compass, 
were: of adults, 70; of adolescents, 4; of children and of infants, 32. 
The forms of burial were as follows: 
Extended on the back, 2. 
Closely flexed to the left, 1. 
Partly flexed to the right, 17. 
Partly flexed to the left, 17. 
Partly flexed on the right, 15. 
Partly flexed on the left, 6. 
Bunched, 1. 
Positions to be described in detail, 8. 
There were also seven disturbances, recent and aboriginal. 
The reader will recall that, when not otherwise stated, burials are those of 
adults, and that the form of burial of infants and children is not included. 
We shall now describe in detail all burials from this place with which any 
artifact was found, as well as such burials which otherwise may seem worthy of 
special notice. 
Burial No. 2, but a few inches from the surface, partly flexed to the right, the 
cranium pointing S. by E. At each side of the head was a shell ear-plug made 
from a conch-shell, and resembling a bracket in shape.! At the neck were shell 
beads rather badly decayed. 
Burial No. 3, one foot down, extended on the back and having the right fore- 
arm flexed back on the humerus, the hand resting on the shoulder, the head SE. 
At the outer side of the left forearm was a small, undecorated pot of inferior 
earthenware. 
Burial No. 4, partly flexed on the left, the head S. by E., lay in a pit 2 feet 
deep, 25 inches wide by 4 feet in length. Under the body, so that both elbows 
rested upon it, where probably it had slipped, was a mask-like gorget of shell, 
showing human features. This ornament, which belongs to a well-known 
class,” is greatly decayed and somewhat broken in one place. 
Burial No. 5, a child, 9 inches deep, the skull SE. At each side of the cranium 
were small, shell ear-plugs of the “bracket” shape. 
Burial No. 6, presumably a bunched burial, having three skulls together, 
the long-bones being somewhat loosely placed. 
1 William Н. Holmes, “Art in Shell of the Ancient Americans,” 2d An. Rep. Bur. Am. Ethn., 
p. 216, Fig. 10. Gates P. Thruston, “Antiquities of Tennessee," 2d ed., 1897, p. 315, Fig. 223. 
? William Н. Holmes, op. cit., p. 293 et seg. George Grant MacCurdy in “American Anthro- 
pologist," July-Sept., 1913, p. 395 et seg. С. B. Moore, “Antiquities of the St. Francis, White and 
Black Rivers," pp. 287, 321, Figs. 16, 45; and “Some Aboriginal Sites on Mississippi River," pp. 
412, 415, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Vol. XIV. 
