SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER. 
Burial No. 119, a child, lay with a vessel at each side of the skull and shell 
ear-plugs on opposite sides of the head. A badly decayed columella of a small 
marine univalve lay at the chin; a bottle was near the left side of the pelvis. 
Burial No. 
120, adult, had ái the right of the skull, a bottle, and at the right 
shoulder a number of small pebbles together, presumably having belonged to a 
rattle, the rest of which had disappeared through decay. | 
Burial No. 124, adult, was interesting in tai it had a bowl inverted over the 
FIG. 43.— Tool made of an 
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skull, completely covering it. Under this bowl, to the left of 
the lower jaw of the skeleton, was an earthenware pipe having 
a flat base surrounded by an incised line. To the left of the 
covering bowl was another bowl upright. Over part of the thorax 
was a bowl; and another bowl lay at the left shoulder, near 
which was an undecorated earthenware pipe of ordinary pat- 
tern. [Immediately alongside the covered skull of this skeleton 
was evidence of comparatively recent digging, and it is proba- 
ble that other objects belonging to this burial had been re- 
moved previous to our coming. 
Burial No. 126, adult, had to the right of the skull, a bottle 
resting on a bowl. Over the opening of the bottle was a spoon 
with dentate margin at one end, made from a mussel-shell, 
which was greatly decayed when found. At the left of the 
skull, and extending beyond, were eighty-five chips, pebbles, 
and parts of pebbles, of flint. With these was a mass of red 
pigment. At the right shoulder were a flint pebble and an 
arrowhead of antler. 
At the outer side of the right humerus, and parallel to it, 
lay a most interesting object, namely, a tool consisting of a 
handle of deer antler much worked down and showing impres- 
sions of cord which had encircled it its entire length at certain 
distances apart. Each end of this handle is hollowed out to a 
considerable extent, and at one end is a perforation, presuma- 
bly for suspension. In place in the other end was the incisor 
of a beaver projecting from the socket 1.1 inch, the curve of the 
tooth being in reverse direction to a curve in the handle (Fig. 
43). The tooth is considerably chipped at the distal end as if 
by use. Although held in place, when found, by a mixture of 
sand and clay which had gained entrance to the socket, the 
former method by which the tooth had been fixed was not 
apparent. Presumably gum had been used which, in course of 
time, disappeared through decay. 
It is interesting to note that Professor Putnam! found in 
deric W. Putnam. Eighteenth and Nineteenth Annual Reports Peabody Museum of 
American Archeology and Ethnology, p. 456, Fi igs. 8 and 9 
