454 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ОХ MISSISSIPPI RIVER. 
dice. We have here, therefore, a pre-Columbian worked knuckle-bone [astragalus] 
die, but the hole is merely for suspension.” 
Burial No. 107, adult, had below the neck, two beads of bone. 
Burial No. 119, adult, had a bottle and a few shell beads at the right humerus. 
Burial No. 121, adult, had at the skull a bottle and a mushroom-shaped 
object of earthenware of a class no doubt correctly believed to be modeling tools - 
for pottery, by Holmes,’ by Thruston 2 and by Fowke.? 
Some have thought that objects of this kind were used to cover the openings 
of water bottles, and in point of fact a considerable collection of vessels made by 
modern Indians of British Guiana, now in the Academy of Natural Sciences of 
Philadelphia, includes numerous bottles with stoppers much resembling the object 
found by us at Pecan Point. 
However, these mushroom-shaped objects of earthenware from prehistoric sites 
in the United States as a rule show considerable wear and, furthermore, are not 
found in numbers sufficient to warrant their being considered stoppers. One mod- 
eling tool could serve for many bottles, but a stopper would be needed for each one. 
Moreover, we do not recall having found at Pecan Point bottles with necks suffi- 
ciently slender to accommodate these mushroom-shaped objects, which, by the way, 
we have found in regions where bottles with slender necks are not known. 
Burial No. 124, adolescent, had a pot, a bowl, and a bone implement doubtless 
used in basketry. 
. Burial No. 138, a child, had two shell beads at the neck. 
Burial No. 150, an aboriginal disturbance of the skeleton of an adult, had shell 
beads at the neck, and was accompanied with two bottles, near one of which lay 
half of a flinty concretion that had been broken open and apparently polished 
along the surface of the fracture, giving the object the appearance of a diminutive 
bowl. At the right hand were three flint chisels and а celt of the same material. 
A handsome leaf-shaped weapon of flint, 12.5 inches in length and having а maxi- 
mum thickness of one inch, lay at the left humerus. A beautiful discoidal stone of 
banded silicious rock was at the inner side of the right forearm, while a wing-bone 
of a swan lay near the skull. 
Burial No. 152, adult, was accompanied with one bottle; near the skull was 
red pigment. 
Burial No. 160, adolescent, had near the skull a bowl in which were two flat, 
circular pebbles. Lying inverted upon these was a spoon cut from a mussel-shell, 
above which was a large mussel-shell. With this burial also was a bowl rudely 
representing a fish. 
Burial No. 162, adult, had at the right shoulder a ceremonial axe of the “hoe- 
shaped” variety, made from carboniferous slate, a material so soft that no imple- 
A William H. Holmes. “Aboriginal Pottery of Eastern United States," Plate XXXV. 
Twentieth An. Rep. Bur. Am. Ethn. 
* Gates P. Thruston. “Antiquities of Tennessee," Second ed., р. 161, Fig. 6 
5. 
ix Da m Fowke, citing Cristopher Wren. Proc. and Coll. Wyoming Hist. and Geol. Soc., 
, 156. 
