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ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 379 
The design of the rattlesnake highly conventionalized on gorgets, seems to 
be almost exclusively a product of the aboriginal art of Tennessee, practically 
all the gorgets of this class figured and fully described by Holmes! being from 
Fic. 91.—Gorget of shell, with conventional rattlesnake design. With Burial No. 41. Citico, Tenn. 
(About full size.) 
that state. Thruston? speaks of thirty or forty of these elaborately carved 
gorgets as having been found along the upper valleys of the Tennessee river 
(meaning from the tributaries of the Tennessee), and says of gorgets of this 
class: “The central head, the coiled body with its complicated and obscure 
involutions, the scaly surface, and the marginal band, are constantly repeated 
1 William Н. Holmes, “Art in Shell of the Ancient Americans,” Plates LXIII, LXIV, LXV, Figs. 
4 and 6, LXVI, Fig. 2. 
(Ур, cit., p. 331 et seq. 
