SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER. 415 
Burial No. 7, the skeleton of a child four or five years of age, had at the neck 
three shell beads and two columella of marine shells. Grouped around the skull 
and extending along the right side to the elbow, were eight vessels, nearly all 
diminutive. Lying beside the vessel farthest down was 
an undecorated pipe similar to the two others from this 
site. The placing of pipes with children or infants was 
pea not commonly resorted to in aboriginal times, but it has 
rodes Place Ark. (Fullsize) been previously noted by us. With this burial was also 
an ear-plug of earthenware (Fig. 28). 
Burial No. 11, of a child about five years of age, had a few shell beads at the 
top of the skull where, perhaps, they had fallen from the neck at the time of inter- 
ment. On the chest was an undecorated, face-shaped gorget of shell, 2 inches long 
and 1.75 inch in maximum breadth, having two perforations at the broader end 
and one at the opposite extremity. This burial had pottery vessels as follows: a 
bottle and a bowl above the skull; a pot at the right shoulder; a bowl near the 
right humerus. 
Burial No. 21, adult, at full length on back, had two shell ear-plugs of the 
well-known class having the shaft cut from the parietal wall of the shell and the 
. head from parts extending to each side of the suture. These lay one at each side 
of the skull. With this burial, also, were three vessels of earthenware, on one of 
which was a badly decayed mussel-shell, having on the outer side rude, incised 
decoration. 
Burial No. 28, a child about four years of age, had ear-plugs of shell of the kind 
just referred to, the exact relation of which could not be determined as the skull 
had been disturbed by a blow from the shovel of the man engaged in digging. 
Seven vessels, all diminutive, were with this burial: a little beyond the skull, a bot- 
tle and a bowl; at the left of the skull, a pot and a vessel made in imitation of a 
foot of a child, with toes and ankle bones distinctly marked (Fig. 35); at the right 
ankle, two bottles and a ladle or spoon. 
Burial No. 33, adolescent, extended on the back, had a pot at the left shoulder, 
and near the head, a shell ear-plug of the short, blunt pin variety, the companion 
to which no doubt escaped our search. 
Burial No. 41, a child, had at the left of the thigh a much decayed mussel- 
shell and a wing-bone of a swan (Olor americanus). | 
Burial No. 42, а child seven or eight years of age, had at the neck two shell 
beads and one tubular bead of blue glass. On the left side of the thorax was a 
small, face-shaped gorget of shell, without decoration, having two perforations at 
the upper, or broader, end. On the right side of the thorax was a rude, discoidal 
stone of ferruginous clay with a secondary ferruginous coating. The six vessels 
. Which lay with this burial, most of which were small, had the following arrange- 
ment: a pot at the right of the skull; a bowl over the right shoulder; a pot at the 
right elbow ; a bottle at the left elbow; a large bowl at the left side of the pelvis; 
a bottle at the middle of the left femur. А shell bead lay near one of these vessels. 
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