822 ANTIQUITIES OF THE ST. FRANCIS, WHITE, 
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been joined together probably by tying, as four holes are present, but no rivets. Оп 
the inner surface of the sheet-metal ornament was a band of split cane, much of 
which still remains. This cane formed part of the ornament, as is shown by the 
fact that single perforations at each end of the ornament, no doubt for attachment, 
pass through the cane also. On the upper part of the ornament is matting which, 
no doubt, is part of the covering of the entire burial, locally preserved by the salts 
of copper. The skull below this ornament is colored green. 
Burial No. 90, an infant, had beads at the neck, and a shell gorget representing 
the human face, but inferior to the one figured previously as coming from this place. 
Exclusive of the pottery taken from the mound, eighty-two vessels of earthen- 
ware came from the sites near Turkey Island. Among these are four vessels 
formerly having had tripod supports, but from which these supports having been 
broken off, the area of contact with the body of the vessel had been carefully 
smoothed. 
Fig. 46.—With Burial No. 94 (an infant). Mounds near Turkey Island. (Full size.) 
Six of the eighty-two vessels bore decoration with red pigment. Three of 
these, with a uniform coating of red, were respectively a bowl from which an animal 
head had been broken, but on which the tail remained, and two wholly asymmetri- 
