414 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
our belief) which the author classes among pendants. This axe or pendant, 
as the case may be, resembles ours (again even as to material), but in addition 
has certain notches at one end. Its size is not given. The Mason collection is 
said to be composed of objects from the vicinity of Jonesboro, Tenn., which is 
in the northeastern corner of that state. 
In an interesting paper! Dr. A. C. Simoens da Silva figures one of these cere- 
monial objects which he describes as “a stone axe without a cutting edge" and 
calls it “the insignia of an Indian chief." This axe, he tells us, is a fine-grained 
diabase and was found in southern Brazil. He believes it was worn suspended 
from the neck. 
On the Biss Place also is a remnant of a mound which had been considerably 
dug into previous to our coming and was not examined by us. 
MOUNDS on Lone ISLAND, RoANE COUNTY. 
On Long Island, which is about 3 miles in length and is owned by Messrs. 
Gorda Johnson Sons, of Lookout Mountain, Tenn., is a mound about 18 feet 
in height, and a considerable number of small mounds, none, we believe, having 
an altitude of more than 7 feet. Permission was refused. 
The large site on Long Island was in part investigated on behalf of the 
Bureau of American Ethnology,’ resulting in the discovery of an interesting 
stone image which is figured in the report. Long Island, as we have explained, is 
in a part of Tennessee river formerly called Holston river, and it is so spoken of 
in the account. 
The statement made (page 359) that the large mound on Long Island was 
known as the Brakebill Mound and was explored by the Rey. E. O. Dunning on 
behalf of Peabody Museum of Cambridge, Mass., is an error. The Brakebill 
Mound? is near the junction of the Holston and French Broad rivers, just above 
Knoxville, Tenn. 
MOUNDS NEAR HurriNE FERRY, ROANE COUNTY. 
About 400 yards in a southerly direction from Huffine Ferry and in full 
view from the river is a mound on cultivated land belonging to Mr. B. F. Huffine 
who resides nearby. The mound, which has been plowed over for a long time, 
is on a slope, and presumably the ground around it has been washed away, as 
its height, 4.5 feet as measured from the outside, proved to be considerably 
less when our excavation, 12 feet square, was carried centrally to the base. 
The diameter of the mound was 40 feet. 
Near the surface was part of the shaft of a human femur. At a depth of 
1 “Points of Contact of the Prehistoric Civilization of Brazil and Argentina with those of the 
Pacific Coast Countries.” Proceedings of the International Congress of Americanists, XVIII 
Session, Part II. London, 1912. 
2 Twelfth An. Rep., р. 358 et seq. 
3 Fifth An. Rep. Peabody Museum, p. 11. 
