434 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER. 
much digging had been done down to skulls, for the removal of objects with them, 
this absence has no significance. 
Burial No. 145, a child lying face down, had at the neck a roughly triangular 
gorget of shell, about 3 inches in length, undecorated, having two perforations for 
suspension at the broader end. A bowl and a bottle were at the right and at the 
left knee, respectively. 
Burial No. 147, a child about seven years of age, had near the skull a pot, and 
a conch-shell (Figur perversum) having а round hole in the body whorl below the 
shoulder, for the insertion of a handle. Tools of this class are common enough in 
Florida, but the discovery of one so far north is of interest. With the shell imple- 
ment was a mussel-shell (Unzo purpuratus). At the right of the skull stood a bot- 
tle, while at the left of the head was a pot containing another pot inverted. At the 
neck were eighty-four shell beads of various shapes and sizes. At each side of the 
neck was a shell ear-plug of the short, blunt-pin type described by Dumont as “the 
shape of а nail provided with a head.” ! In this particular instance each ear-plug 
has back of the head a groove to accommodate the encircling lobe of the ear. A pot 
lay at the right forearm, and a bowl near the right femur, having with it two mussel- 
shells, one of which is perforated near the hinge. 
Burial No. 152, adult, had a large, decaying mussel-shell over the left elbow, 
and two others, one notched at the end, at the left humerus. | 
Burial No. 158, a child, had a bowl and a bottle at the skull, and at the neck 
a small univalve much decayed. 
Burial No. 155, adult, lay with a bowl and a bottle at the right of the skull. 
In the bowl were forty-eight pebbles and chips of flint, and five small, leaf-shaped 
arrowheads of the same material. On these were three sections of tines of deer 
antler, probably intended for tool handles. At the right shoulder was a bowl con- 
taining a bit of sandstone and having a nodule of flint nearby. Near the left hand 
were a bowl and a piercing implement of bone, with the remains of what probably 
had been a similar implement. 
Burial No. 157, adult, had at the right shoulder a handsome chisel wrought 
from a flint pebble, and fragments of a bone implement. At the right of the skull 
was a pot. 
Burial No. 160, adult, had a shell ear-plug near the skull. The opposite side 
of the cranium had been dug down to and rifled by a previous digger. 
Burial No. 174, adult, lying face down, had a bowl at the left of the skull and 
a pot resting on the back. Near the pelvis was a piercing implement of bone. 
While digging at the Bradley Place we came upon a fire-place which at one 
end was within about 8 inches of the surface, but sloped downward to a depth of 
1.5 feet approximately. Below this fire-place was a pit about 2 feet in depth, in 
which, mingled with the soil and scattered here and there, were numerous frag- 
ments of china and of glass, and the metal part of a fork with two tines. 
1 Cited by John R. Swanton. “Indian Tribes of the Lower Mississippi Valley.” Bulletin 43, 
Bur. Am. Ethn., p. 55. 
