SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER. 451 
Burial No. 4, adult, had a bottle at the right side of the skull and a bowl at 
the right shoulder. Near the head was an earthenware pipe having on two sides 
a decoration based on the swastika, with spiral arms, and in front an incised repre- 
sentation possibly of the head of a deer with antlers, or of a human head sur- 
mounted with plumes (Fig. 61). 
Burial No. 13, a child, had three shell beads at the neck, a discoidal stone at 
the left thigh. Near the stone was the wing-bone' of a bird. With this burial 
also was an astragalus of an elk, smoothed as to some of the sides, for use in 
a game. 
Burial No. 25, a child, had at the right forearm a bowl; at the right thigh, a 
bottle. Some limonite, doubtless used as yellow pigment, was with this burial. 
Burial No. 28, a child, had in addition to a pot: two dumb-bell shaped beads 
of shell; two shell ear-plugs of different sizes; a flat, oblong, shell bead with cres- 
сепбіс excisions in four sides, and two central perforations. 
Burial No. 33, adult, had a bottle at the feet, a bowl at the ankles, and, at the 
left shoulder, three carefully made implements of split bone, each rounded at one 
end, probably for use in basketry. 
Burial No. 40, a child, had a worked astragalus of a deer near the head, and, 
on the pelvis, a bottle, a bowl, and a toy vessel representing a frog. 
Burial No. 56, an adult, had in association near the head, a bottle and a bowl. 
A small, flint arrowpoint rested on a dorsal vertebra. 
Burial No. 60, an aboriginal disturbance of the skeleton of a well-grown child, 
the skeleton being present only from the pelvis up. This burial had no fewer than 
eleven vessels arranged around the remaining parts. In addition, shell beads, some 
round, some flat, and an ear-plug of shell lay in place at each side of the head. 
The ear-plugs found by us in the site at Pecan 
Point, with one exception which will be noted 
later, belong to the well-known class which 
somewhat resemble a mushroom іп shape, 
though the head extends slightly more to one 
side than it does to the other. This class of 
ear-plugs have the shaft cut from the parietal . 
wall of a large, marine univalve (Zz/gur), and 
the head from parts to either side of the suture, 
as we have already explained in this report. 
To return to Burial No. 60. With the 
beads, evidently a pendant with the necklace, 
was a canine tooth of a panther, grooved at one 
Ете. 62.—Ornaments made from spires of marine 
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Эл Point, end for suspension. On the forehead of the 
1 At Pecan Point, in addition to the wing-bones found and recorded as belonging to particular 
burials, six other wing-bones were unearthed, some of which were with burials and some apart from 
them, presumably through disturbance. We cannot say with what burial any one of these bones was 
found, but Prof. F. A. Lucas kindly has identified the bones as follows: swan, 3; snow goose, 1; wild 
goose, 1; wild duck, 1. 
