500 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES. 
Burial No. 3, extended on the back, had at the right of the skull a eup-shaped 
vessel from which, presumably, a head and tail of an effigy had projected; also 
a mass of oólitie hematite iron ore, having a deep depression in which rested a 
lump of red hematite showing flat surfaces where grinding had taken place— 
here was evidently a kind of paint cup with its contents. At the right of 
the pelvis were traces of a rattle of tortoise or turtle shell, having contained 
pebbles. 
Burial No. 7, a child, had with it an undecorated bowl and fragments of a 
rude, human-effigy vessel. 
Burial No. 8, a child, also had associated with it parts of a rude, human- 
effigy vessel, and fragments of a coarse pot having had two loop-handles. 
The burial in the grave was without artifact. 
Four of the rises at this place were dug into to some extent, one showing 
no sign of burial in the raw sand, another having fragments of uncremated bones, 
being part of a burial apparently extending under a large tree. 
In another rise, 14 inches from the surface, was a deposit of carbonized bones, 
including a single skull. Also were encountered the unburnt remains of an 
infant’s skeleton, 30 inches down, covered by the base of a large vessel, the 
fragment being about 9 inches square. 
In the fourth rise investigated were two small deposits of cremated remains, 
probably individual burials, and another, 2 feet by 7 feet in extent, beginning 
near the surface and slanting down to a depth of 1 foot 8 inches. 
Near the surface was a central, cremated deposit 4 inches to 6 inches in 
thickness, including eight skulls, crushed when found, though represented ap- 
parently in all their parts. This area, oblong with rounded corners, 7 feet 
long by 2 feet wide, approximately, could not be definitely defined, as fragments 
of burnt bones were scattered here and there in the soil adjacent to it. With 
this deposit was a fragment of a bowl of thin and fairly good ware, and also a 
diminutive pot containing material in small fragments, of which Doctor Keller 
writes: 
“I have made a careful qualitative and rough quantitative analysis of the 
black material from Neeley Mounds. It turns out to be a silicate resembling 
hornblende. It contains over 60 per cent. silica, about 20 of alumina and 11 oxide 
of iron. Also a few per cent. of lime and magnesia (rather more of the latter 
than of lime), and traces of manganese and alkalies. Ordinary hornblende 
contains less of both siliea and alumina, and more of lime and magnesia. Like 
hornblende it is very hard, gives a gray powder, and melts before the blowpipe, 
giving slightly magnetic globules, and is only slightly attacked by acids. It is 
not distinctly crystalline, however. I think it is perfectly safe to call it a silicate 
of the hornblende or augite type." 
In connection with this deposit of cremated remains was a feature not noted 
in the other cremated burials at this place. With the bones, mainly above 
them, to a limited extent, was sand reddened by fire. Below the bones was no 
