420 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
The other, though it had been under cultivation, showed no sign of digging. 
Its height was about 2 feet; its diameter, about 45 feet. Four large trial-holes 
in the central part of the mound showed the base to be about 2 feet 9 inches 
down, and in one instance came upon a skeleton flexed to the right, at a depth of 
20 inches. 
At the left of the skull was a small, complete, quartz crystal. Though 
bearing no perforation or groove for suspension, this erystal, perhaps, had been 
an ornament, or possibly a part of the paraphernalia of a medicine-man. Small 
wonder that quartz erystals, with their striking and mysterious appearance, 
should appeal to the savage mind as efficacious in the practice of “medicine” 
ormagic. Fragments of quartz crystals are found in the bags carried by sorcerers 
in Roro, New Guinea. The medicine-men of the Papago Indians’ of Arizona 
use crystals to induce rain, and they form part of the equipment of the priests 
of the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and Arizona today as of old. We found 
many large quartz crystals in the mound at the Haley Place,’ southwestern 
Arkansas, interred evidently with important persons. All recall the bit of 
quartz crystal in the Natchez temple, and doubtless many other examples of 
the use of crystals by aborigines are familiar to most of us. 
In the field near the mound is a small dwelling-site having a few shells and 
other debris scattered upon it. Apparently much of it had been washed away. 
No burials were encountered. 
DWELLING-SITES ON THE S. E. PRATER PLACE, BLOUNT COUNTY. 
Adjoining the Edward Prater Place is the property of Mr. S. E. Prater, living 
some distance back toward the hills. Two dwelling-sites on this place were 
covered with growing grain, and as the region was so unpromising no effort was 
made on our part to arrange terms for an investigation. 
DWELLING-SITE ON GRANT ISLAND, BLOUNT COUNTY. 
On Grant Island is a dwelling-site, to investigate which we were unable to 
obtain permission. Owner, Mr. John Queener. 
DWELLING-SITE ON Cox ISLAND, KNox COUNTY. 
Cox Island, whose area is restricted, belongs to Mr. W. L. Hinson, living 
nearby on the mainland. On part of this island is an aboriginal dwelling-site 
covered with pebbles, broken and whole, some of fair size; hammer-stones; some 
shells; a small number of bits of pottery, and here and there fragments of human 
bones. The pebbles at this place are silicious, but flint is practically absent. 
From the surface were gathered an arrowhead of flint, a rude grooved axe of 
sandstone, a spade of like material, and part of a slate gorget. 
1 Robert W. Williamson, M. Sc., F.R.A.I., “The Ways of the South Sea Savage," p. 160. 
2 Dr. Carl Lumholtz, “ New Trails in Mexico," p. 49. 
3 C. B. Moore, “Some Aboriginal Sites on Red River," Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Vol. XIV, 
p. 527 et seq. 
