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of these explorations he presents many traits discovered by these 

 excavations, which traits are generally regarded as associated with 

 the Cherokee complex. His report on these particular sites, while 

 sufficiently complete for his purpose, leaves much to be desired by 

 way of detailed information. In particular no detailed information 

 is given concerning pottery artifacts from these sites beyond the 

 number of vessels recovered. In the spring of 1934 the author had 

 opportunity to visit the sites of Settacoo and Toqua town sites as 

 designated by Timberlake, which were excavated by Thomas, and to 

 make a collection of potsherds from each site. From these collections 

 of sherds it is possible to determine many of the pottery traits and 

 thus to supplement the list of traits reported by Thomas. This 

 composite list, as supplemented, is entered in the tabulations of 

 traits under the designation "Thomas." The traits reported by 

 Thomas are from sites excavated on Little Tennessee Kiver, all of 

 which were known to have been occupied by Cherokee in historic 

 times. 



(3) The report of Heye, Hodge, and Pepper 7 on the Nacoochee 

 Mound in northern Georgia was selected to furnish another list of 

 Cherokee traits because of the known historic connection of this site. 

 Mooney identifies it as a village visited by De Soto in 1540. The 

 Cherokee occupation of this site continued up to about 1820. This 

 list of traits is designated as "Nacoochee" in the tabulation. 



(4) A fourth list of traits which possibly may represent Cherokee 

 material culture was obtained as the result of the exploration of a 

 site near Dandridge, Tenn., in 1935 by Prof. T. M. Lewis for the 

 University of Tennessee. The report of this excavation has not yet 

 been published, but from personal communication from Professor 

 Lewis and from photographs furnished by him, a list of traits has 

 been made out which is designated "Dandridge" in the tabulation. 



On the map of the Tennessee Valley, frontispiece, the location of 

 these sites is shown as follows : 



Hiwassee Island at Mouth of Hiwassee River ; Bussell's Island at mouth of 

 Little Tennessee River; Toqua and Settico on Little Tennessee River above 

 the mouth of Telliquo River; Dandridge north of the French Broad River; 

 and Nacoochee in northeastern Georgia. 



Sites Nos. 19 and 10 of the Norris Basin, which seem most nearly 

 related to this culture complex, have been chosen for comparison. 

 In the following tabulation, 62 traits have been selected, each of 

 which occurs at two or more sites. All traits occurring on only one 

 site have been eliminated as having no value in this comparison. 



Heye, Hodge, and Pepper, 1918. 



