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PAPERS RELATING TO ANTHROPOLOGY, 



to the original level, developing the fact that it was a burial mound. 

 The bones were so greatly (k-cayedas to render it impossible to preserve 

 even anj' fragments of the skulls. Large numbers of fragments of 

 pottery were found, but no whole vessels. The material and many 

 of the markings resemble those of specimens, already referred to, from 

 the old cemetery on the margin of the river, distant about 300 yards. 

 Judged from the fragments, the majority of the vessels would hold 

 about 2.J gallons each. One, however, was not much larger than the half 

 of a cocoauut-shell and of about the same shape. Fig. 21. 



i'lG. 22. Poltciy fragments from niotjnd near Naples, 111. 



It is of a dark color, about one-quarter of an inch thick, symmetrically 

 made, and ornamented with lines about the sixteenth of an inch in depth, 



