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chipped flints, the latter including a very fine IQi^-inch white chert 

 blade. There were also a few grit-tempered sherds and one small 

 roulette decorated vase (pi. 7, A), but the latter was not directly 

 associated with any of the skeletal remains. An extended infant 

 burial yielded a few scraps of copper. The bluff north of this mound 

 is littered with worked and unworked stone, and a large polished 

 biperforate gorget of altered diorite is said to have been picked up 

 on the surface here. 



More recently, since our work, I have been informed that another 

 burial mound was opened in a group on the bluffs some 12 miles 

 upriver from the Renner site, also on the left bank of the Missouri.' 

 Full details are lacking, but it appears that remains of a number of 

 skeletons were found here in an oval chamber of coursed stones with 

 a walled opening toward the south. There was no satisfactory evi- 

 dence of a specially prepared floor or burial surface. Two incom- 

 plete male skulls and two frontal bones, including that of one 

 infant, have been submitted to tlie National Museum for exami- 

 nation. The frontal bones in all cases are extremely narrow, and 

 three exhibit a slight flattening above the middle on each side of 

 the median line. Both of the crania show simple occipital de- 

 formity of moderate degree. One is evidently abnormal; the other 

 is of dolichocranic type. The latter, it may be noted here, strik- 

 ingly resembles one from the Brenner mound no. 2, described by 

 Hrdlicka and now in the national collections.* Marks of rodent 

 teeth occur on the bones, suggesting that they were originally 

 placed in an open vault. In support of this view Shippee re- 

 ports that "the mounds all appear to be flat topped over the vault 

 enclosure. I presume they once had a roof of logs and stones." 

 Associated cultural remains included a small stone knife and two 

 Hopcwellian vessels strongly reminiscent of certain pieces from the 

 Renner village site (pis. 7, B, and 8). This association, if correct, 

 is of great interest since it would indicate a direct connection between 

 at least one stone-vault mound and a village artifact com])lex similar 

 to that described in this paper. It would be tempting to go a step 

 further and view the Brenner, Ivlamm, and Keller mounds as burial 

 places for the dead of the nearby Renner site, but in the present 

 state of our information such a relationship can not be conclusively 

 demonstrated. With the single apparent exception just noted, it is 

 still impossible to identify with certainty the builders of this 



■ Excavated by Albert Hansen, •who kindly forwarded the pottery and part of the skeletal 

 material found to the U. S. National Museum for study. Information that follows was 

 furnished by Mr. Shippee (letters of Nov. 3 and 14, 1937), who visited the mound at my 

 request. 



* Fowke, G., Op. cit., p. 109. There is no record of pottery or other artifacts associated 

 with this last find, made within 900 yards to the east of the Renner village site. 



