384 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
the head SSE.; depth, 40 inches. A few inches from the left of the skull, with a 
small quantity of charcoal, was a deposit of seven celts of indurated shale, 
ranging in length between 3.25 inches and 9.5 inches, one being somewhat 
different from the ordinary hatchet or chisel. This tool, slightly more than 
6.5 inches in length, is flat on one side and con- 
vex on the other, and has, at one end, a cutting 
edge showing use. The tools in this deposit, 
which were horizontal and without uniformity 
as to the direction of the cutting edges, lay par- 
allel to the skeleton and to each other, and were 
all in contact one with another, or nearly so. 
The implements had been arranged in two rows, 
the one nearest the skull consisting of two, one 
placed above the other, and two lying singly; 
the lower row being the large celt with two 
smaller ones in line with each other, beside it, 
the celts first mentioned in each row being nearest 
the bones. 
Soon RSS Pho dis Immediately under this deposit were the re- 
(About full size.) mains of a shell gorget of the human-face variety. 
An earthenware pipe (Fig. 93) showing the con- 
ventional beak of a bird, a form prevalent at this place, lay at the inner side 
of the left forearm. 
Burial No. 79, a child buried at a depth of 26 inches. Around the base of 
the skull lay a necklet made up of six tubular beads of bone, from 3 to 3.5 inches 
in length, fashioned from wing-bones of birds. This necklet evidently had held 
suspended an ornament of copper which had deeply dyed green one side of one 
of the beads. The metal ornament had been made from sheet-copper, circular 
in the main but having a small projection to accommodate a perforation for 
attachment. A cireular opening in the middle has a diameter of about one inch. 
At each ear was a small ear-plug of shell, having a groove to accommodate 
the encircling lobe of the ear. At the right wrist were four blue glass beads and 
a few crumbling beads of shell. 
Burial No. 80, the skeleton of an adolescent, partly flexed to the right, lay 
at a depth of 18 inches, the head SE. In the angle between the flexed thighs 
and the pelvis was a deposit consisting of a flat pebble, roughly circular, about 
2.7 inches in diameter, on which rested the remains of a large musselshell; four 
worked fragments of deer antler, three small, the other with a cutting edge and 
probably having served as a tool; a stone implement of a widely prevalent type, 
somewhat resembling a celt or having a blunt edge, and sometimes with a 
perforation at the upper end; two rude knives of flint. 
Burial No. 82, partly flexed to the right, the head SSE., lay at a depth of 
32 inches. At one side of the head was a shell ear-plug of the “bracket shape," 
