450 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER. 
The following burials had artifacts other than pottery associated with them. 
АП burials of adults, when not otherwise specified, lay extended on the backs. 
Burial Хо. 2, adolescent, disturbed. This burial had with it two ear-plugs of 
the blunt pin type which, however, were not found in place near the head as the 
skeleton had been disturbed by recent digging prior to ours. 
Burial No. 3, a child, had one shell bead at the neck; a bowl and a bottle near 
the head. 
Burial No. 10, a child, with which were two bottles and a pot, near the skull; 
at the neck, two shell beads, and a small, flat ornament of shell, tending toward 
oval in outline and having two perforations at the broader end. 
Burial No. 24, a child, had a large and a small bottle at the left of the thorax. 
Large bottles associated with children’s burials are somewhat unusually found. 
Together, at the right elbow, were a bit of quartz crystal and fragments of a shell 
from the Gulf coast (Cardium robustum). With these was an ear-plug gracefully 
carved from a fairly hard, white stone and copper-coated on the outer surface. A 
part of that portion of the ear-plug which was intended to button back of the lobe 
of the ear, is missing through breakage evidently in ancient times, from the appear- 
Епа, 42,—Ear-plug of stone и with sheet-copper on the upper surface, With burial No. 24. 
radley Place, Ark. (Full size.) 
ance of the surface of the broken part. The mate to this ear-plug was not present, 
and it is likely that the broken ornament had been given to the child with which 
it was found, for use as a plaything or as an ornament. This ear-plug is shown in 
three positions in Fig. 42. Ear-plugs of limestone, copper-coated similarly to this 
one, have been found by us in middle Florida, though the stone of these ornaments 
is not nearly so gracefully carved as is that of the ear-plug from the Bradley Place. 
An ear-plug closely resembling this опе, from a stone grave in middle Tennessee, 18 
figured by General Thruston.' 
Burial No. 39, adult, had four wing-bones of swans (O/or americanus) together 
at the inner side of the right humerus. 
Burial Хо. 54, adult, had at the right hand a wing-bone of a goose (Branta 
canadensis). A bowl and a bottle were near the skull. 
! Gates P. Thruston. “Antiquities of Tennessee,” Second ed., р. 169. 
