490 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES. 
With the largest bunch burial were: a pot having two loop-handles and a 
rude, current scroll around the body, containing a musselshell in fragments, 
no doubt formerly used as a spoon; an undecorated pot having two loop-handles, 
inverted over a small undecorated bowl; a pot without decoration, having two 
loop-handles. One somewhat similar to the foregoing was with another bunched 
burial. 
In the midden debris were several arrowheads and piercing implements of 
bone; also half of an effigy vessel representing a fish. 
DWELLING-SITE NEAR THE Moura or Massac CREEK, McCRACKEN 
County, Ky. 
Near the mouth of Massac creek, on the property of Mr. J. D. McElya, living 
nearby, is an aboriginal dwelling-site of promising appearance, no doubt con- 
taining a large number of burials. After twenty skeletons had been removed 
without the discovery of an associated artifaet, work was discontinued. 
DWELLING-SITE NEAR OWENS FERRY, Massac COUNTY, ILL. 
Near Owens Ferry, opposite Paducah, Ky., on property of Captain Brack 
Owen, of Paducah, is a dwelling-site into which twelve holes were sunk without 
encountering signs of interment. 
MOUNDS AND SITE ON THE KINCAID AND Lewis PLACES, Massac AND POPE 
COUNTIES, ILL. 
About six miles above Paducah, Ky., but on the Illinois side of the river, a 
mile inland from Kincaid Landing, is by far the most promising site seen by us 
on Ohio river, on which are seven mounds on the property of Mrs. T. M. Kincaid, 
and eight on the adjoining land of Messrs. T. and E. Lewis. 
All these mounds were seen but not measured by us, as we were unable to 
obtain permission to dig them. According to our agent, a good judge in such 
matters, who examined the mounds more carefully than we did, their heights 
range all the way to 30 feet. Doubtless the smaller ones would be more pro- 
ductive, were any result obtained by digging into them. 
ABORIGINAL CEMETERY ON THE THIRLKILL PLACE, LIVINGSTON County, Ky. 
On government land which formerly was part of the Thirlkill Place, on 
ground overlooking the river, in a restricted area of sand, had been a number of 
stone box-graves with flooring of limestone and of sandstone. 
All the graves had been somewhat disturbed by cultivation, but the ten 
best preserved—eight extending easterly and westerly, and two northerly and 
southerly—were examined by us. "The skeletons, badly decayed, had not been 
placed uniformly; for example, some in the graves running E. and W. having 
the heads to the east, others to the west. 
