416 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER. 
Burial No. 45, the skeleton of a child about two years of age, had at the neck 
a small, thin ornament of shell, broken into many fragments; a bottle lying across 
a bowl, both diminutive, at the left of the skull; a small Ыы] at the left shoulder, 
on which was an animal head containing objects which rattled when shaken. 
Burial No. 53, a child, had a bowl at the right of the pelvis and a discoidal of 
sandstone at the left elbow. 
Burial No. 54, a child, had one shell bead at the neck, and a small, flat orna: 
ment of shell with two perforations, on the chest. Two vessels lay at the right 
shoulder. ` 
Burial No. 57, adult, extended on the back, had a bowl and a pot at the right 
of the skull; a bottle at the left of the skull; a pot at the left shoulder. Near the 
skull also was a wing-bone of a lesser snow goose (Chen hyperboreus)? 
One hundred and twenty-three pottery vessels, many crushed into small frag- 
ments, came from the Rhodes Place, all but six interred with burials. Three of 
these six vessels, however, lay together, and unquestionably had accompanied an 
interment. Іп aboriginal sites one often comes upon skeletons from which vessels 
have been taken, but the converse is unusual, and we are constrained to believe 
that the bones of a very small infant had disappesred through decay (though large ` 
bones at this place were fairly well preserved), or that our digger threw the small 
skeleton back and buried it under the loose soil before the vessels were discovered. 
It may be well to explain in connection with vessels found with burials, that 
the total number met with at any one site must be less than originally had been 
placed there, since aboriginal disturbance invariably has broken or removed some 
vessels which latter are not found in connection with the bones, while in recent 
times the plow, and the “ pot-hunter” in certain cases, have removed some vessels, 
leaving skeletons or parts of skeletons behind. 
At the Rhodes Place the greatest number of vessels found with one burial was 
nine, and children had been by far the most favored. 
Many of the vessels are shell-tempered. None has decoration in color. 
The more interesting vessels from this place will now be particularly described. 
Vessel No. 19, a bowl about 8.5 inches in diameter, has notches around the 
margin, and below, on opposite sides, the modeled head and tail of a frog in relief. 
In place of modeled legs on each of two opposite sides, however, is a disk in 
relief, somewhat more than one inch in diameter. 
Vessel No. 65. This human effigy bottle (Fig. 29) differs from others found 
in this region in that the necks of the latter form parts of the modeled heads and 
are subservient to them. In this particular case a neck similar to that found on 
the bottles of the region has the head in relief upon it. 
A better example of this type of bottle forms part of the collection of Mr. E. 
E. Baird of Poplar Bluff, Mo., for not only is the modeling of the vessel superior to 
that of our specimen, but the neck of the bottle is embellished with a pair of well- 
made ears, 
