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Burial No. 22, partly flexed to the left. At the right of the pelvis, together, 
were two piercing implements, evidently of avian bones, and a small muller. 
Burial No. 27, closely flexed to the right. At the right of the skull, together, 
were: three implements of bone, one with pointed end, the others with rounded 
ones, perhaps used in basketry; two arrowheads or knives, of flint, as were all 
such objects at this place; a drill; the pointed end of a large flint weapon or tool; 
a rude or unfinished knife. On the left humerus and on part of the thorax 
was a mass of pure clay, recalling a custom observed in connection with some 
aboriginal burials along Tennessee river.! 
Burial No. 28, closely flexed to the right. Around the neck were many 
discoidal beads, each slightly less than one inch in diameter, while numerous 
tubular beads of shell, the largest ones about 1.5 inch in length, encircled the 
pelvis. 
With this burial were many bones in no order, including four skulls, having 
in association: a lancehead 4 inches long; six discoidal shell beads; a long, bone 
implement showing considerable workmanship (Fig. 8, to the reader's left); a 
long pin in a fine state of preservation; a sizer of antler (Fig. 9, G). 
Burial No. 29, adolescent closely flexed. "Together on the right humerus 
was the following miscellaneous assortment: a small mass of glauconite, or green 
earth, probably used as a paint; three incisors of a woodchuck (Marmota monax); 
a small amount of red pigment (hematite); a small, imperforate object of shell, 
elliptical in outline; two lanceheads or knives about 3.5 and 4.5 inches in length, 
respectively; a netting needle of antler (Fig. 12, F); two sizers of the same 
material (Plate IX, F, H). 
Burial No. 31, a disturbance. Near the neck were small shell beads and 
part of a pin made from a bone of the deer. 
Burial No. 33, a disturbance. In association with the bones were: minute 
shell beads; five large discoidal ones; a barrel-shaped bead of claystone, 1.25 
inch in length; part of a large weapon of flint. 
Burial No. 34, a disturbance. Shell beads were near the head in great 
numbers, discoidal, minute and large. With these were shell ornaments, one 
at each side of the skull, and one over the right shoulder, being sections of the 
body-whorl of the marine shell Busycon, each about 3.75 inches long by 3.5 
inches wide, having two perforations at one end and one in the center. These 
rude gorgets were without decoration. At the neck and on the upper part of 
the thorax were shell beads and a bead of jet, barrel-shaped, 2.1 inches in length 
(Plate XII). With the shell beads were two other beads of jet and one of clay- 
stone; also parts of two curved strips of shell; a long bead of shell partly perfo- 
rated; four canines of the wolf, perforated at the proximal end for suspension, 
which evidently had been strung among the beads. 
Lying on the right side of the thorax, its long axis corresponding with that 
! C. B. Moore, “Aboriginal Sites on Tennessee River," passim. Journ. Асар. Nav. Scr. PHILA., 
vol. XVI. 
