382 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
Burial No. 56, a child; depth, 26 inches. On the chest was a shell gorget 
having the conventionalized rattlesnake design (Fig. 92). 
Burial No. 57, a child, depth, 31 inches, having at the neck shell beads and 
on the chest a gorget bearing the design of a rattlesnake, conventionalized, part 
of which had sealed away. Over the pelvis were two vessels—a bowl with 
undecorated body having two small, flat handles projecting horizontally, in 
which, upright, stood a pot with two loop-handles and rude line-decoration on 
the upper part of the body which also was surrounded by a fillet. In this pot 
was the skull of an infant which probably got there through the great disturbance 
of burials prevailing in the elevation. 
Burial No. 58, partly flexed to the right, head NE. by E.; depth, 6 inches. 
Shell beads were at the neck. 
Burial No. 59, partly flexed to the left, head N.; depth, 16 inches. At the 
neck were 411 shell beads, in addition to broken ones, some globular with flattened 
poles, some barrel-shaped, the largest bead being about .75 inch in diameter. 
Burial No. 60, partly flexed on the left, the right forearm across the trunk, 
the head SW.; depth, 35 inches. At the neck were small marine shells used as 
beads, very badly decayed, and at the chin was a gorget of shell on which had 
been engraved the usual conventional rattlesnake design, most of which, how- 
ever, had decayed away. Both wrists were stained green by salts of copper. 
At the right wrist there still remained small, tubular beads of that metal. 
Burial No. 61, partly flexed to the right. Some of the skull was missing 
through contact with a plow, which doubtless had carried away also a shell 
ear-plug of the “bracket” variety, one of which was found at the under side 
of the skull. 
Burial No. 62. This burial must be considered in a synecdochical sense, 
a part for the whole. Presumably a skeleton wrapped in fabric of some sort and 
still further enclosed perhaps in hide, had been placed at the bottom of a grave 
about 35 inches deep. On the burial had been thrown very hot clay, filling the 
grave, which was 2 feet wide, to a depth of 11.5 inches. This clay, which the 
fire had turned red, had been sufficiently hot thoroughly to char the materials 
wrapped around the bones and the bones themselves, but had not been sufficiently 
heated to discolor the clay on the sides and the bottom of the grave. The bones 
and enveloping material at the base of the pit had a maximum thickness of 
about 3 inches. Above them, as stated, came 11.5 inches of brick-red clay, 
on top of which, to the surface, was the ordinary soil of the elevation. 
Now, unfortunately, there remained in the ground but a section of the burial 
from which to draw conclusions, one grave having cut away the burial under 
description from the lumbar vertebre up, while another grave, intersecting, had 
removed the skeleton from the pelvis down. There remained, then, to indicate 
the form of burial, but the pelvis, the lumbar vertebra, and part of the forearm 
bones of the right side. Above these were sections of the grave as described. 
This use of hot clay in connection with burials has been fully described in 
our account of the mound on the Bennett Place, Marion County, Tenn. 
