380 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
in the general design. Sometimes the strange, coiled figures can scarcely be 
recognized, yet, upon patient examination, the mythological serpent is always 
found to be represented." The gorgets of this kind figured by Thruston are 
taken from Holmes’ “Art in Shell," and are from Tennessee. The earliest 
account of the design of the conventional rattlesnake on gorgets is by the late 
Jeffries Wyman.’ 
Burial No. 42, a young child, 32 inches down, having shell beads at the neck 
and an undecorated gorget of shell on the chest. 
Burial No. 45, a young child, 3 feet down. On the chest was a shell gorget 
in the shape of a mask representing the human face, 4.7 inches long and 3.8 
inches wide. | 
Burial No. 46, a child; depth, 39 inches. А small discoidal of limestone was 
at the knees. Incidentally, it may be said that in the midden-debris at this 
place and on the surface were a number of small, discoidal stones, and stones 
of this kind were found with the burials of children. Also there were found 
many discs of pottery made from fragments of earthenware vessels, some of these 
discs being very carefully rounded. The small stone dises presumably were 
not of sufficient size to have been used in the game of chunkey, but it is possible 
they were employed in some other game and may have been used interchangeably 
with the pottery discs. As the reader probably is aware, these discs of earthen- 
ware, found so widely throughout the United States, were used in ancient times 
abroad. They are found in Italian neolithic stations and in Egypt. Similar 
dises belonging to a pre-Roman period have been discovered in Basel, Switzer- 
land.? 
Burial No. 47. The trunk of this skeleton lay on the back, the right humerus 
along the body with the right forearm crossing to the pelvis. The left upper 
arm lay along the trunk, the forearm across it. The thighs were widely sepa- 
rated, the legs being flexed at an acute angle, bringing the feet together. The 
head was directed NNW. The burial was 4.5 feet deep. At the neck were 
small marine shells pierced for use as beads (Marginella apicina). On the chest, 
having been suspended by a string of beads, was a shell gorget of the human- 
face variety, 6.5 inches long by 5 inches in width. At the right and left wrists 
were beads of the same variety as those found on the neck. 
Burial No. 49. "The upper part of the trunk of this skeleton, which was 32 
inches from the surface, was on the right side, the lower part on the back, the 
thighs being flexed to an almost vertieal position and being, of course, near 
together. The legs were flexed down from the knees at an acute angle, being 
consequently near the thighs. The head was NE. At the right hand was a 
leaf-shaped implement of flint, 5.6 inches in length and 2.4 inches in maximum 
width. 
! Fifth Annual Report Peabody Museum, p. 17 et seq 
? Angelo Mosso, “The Dawn of erence Оор? рр. 88, 89. 
* Karl Stehlin, “Die Praehistorisehe Ansiedelung bei der Gasfabrik in Basel," "Anzeiger für 
Sehweizerische Altertumskunde," Band XVI, Heft 1, p. 9. 
