408 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER. 
toward the head. In the space between the knees and head were:a bottle and a 
bowl. Thrown out by the digger at work on this burial, and doubtless belonging 
to it, was a tubular bead of copper or of brass, very badly corroded. 
Burial No. 9, adult, closely flexed on the right side, had near the feet a bottle, 
below which were two bowls. Near these bowls were fourteen slender arrowpoints 
of flint, eight lying together, the rest slightly scattered. Crushed against the pelvis 
were a number of pendants of shell, most of them broken beyond restoration, though 
a few have been successfully repaired. These pendants had been made by cutting 
out slender sections of mussel-shells, and include at one end part of the hinge of 
the shell, beneath which is a perforation. One side of each ornament is scalloped. 
A small quantity of powdered hematite lay near the left forearm .of this burial. 
Burial No. 10, adolescent lying flexed on the right side, had the space between 
the knees and the head occupied by the following objects: а bottle and a bowl; an 
interesting pipe (Figs. 26, 27) representing a human figure with perforations in the 
Ета. 26.—Pipe of earthenware. Kent Place, Ета. 27.—Pipe of earthenware, side view. Kent Place, Ark. 
Ark, (Full size.) (Full size. 
ears. On the back of the figure is represented the back-bone as it is so often shown 
in human effigy vessels. Near the pipe were three pebbles, about 3 inches in 
diameter, each rudely rounded to form a discoidal stone, and the carapace of a 
tortoise. 
Burial No. 12, adult, partly flexed on the left side, had on the left side of the 
skull, an ornament of sheet-copper, 3.25 inches wide by 5 inches long, having two 
holes near together at the center, for attachment. On the outer side of the orna- 
1 At the Kent Place,. vessels, though often found near the heads of burials, also frequently were 
come upon at other parts of the skeleton. 
