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finely polished pipe of green syenite; no relics were found in any 
of the other graves. 
It is only necessary to add that these mounds and burial pits 
were opened by the regular assistants of the Bureau of Ethnol- 
ogy, and that all the articles mentioned, except the skeletons, are 
now in the National Museum. Some of the skulls have also 
been received, but most of the skeletons were so badly decayed 
that when exposed to the air they crumbled to pieces. 
Fic. 3.—Mound on Holston river, Sullivan county, Tenn. 
I give here a list of the articles obtained from one of these 
places, the “ Lenoir Burial Pit” : 
One stone axe ; forty-three polished celts; nine vessels of clay; 
; TO arrow-heads ; twenty soap-stone pipes, mostly unin- 
lured; twelve discoidal stones ; ten rubbing stones ; two hammer 
» One broken soapstone vessel; six engraved shells; four 
ones Borgets ; one Pyrula perversa entire, and two or three broken 
seg iron celt; five very large copper beads; one lot of 
ts of shells, some of them engraved; a few rude shell pins; 
