PAPERS RELATING TO ANTHROPOLOGY. 



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moved a skull, wliicli wa.s 5 feet from the top of the mound and 3 feet 

 below the rock covering. But, strange to say, no other part of the 

 skeleton could be found, or any marks of decayed bones. After the 

 center shaft -was reached it was sunk 2 feet deeper, and trenched back 

 to the place of beginning. In the process six skeletons were removed 

 in a very good state of preservation, two with heads to the east; one to 

 the south; one to the north; one to the southeast; one to the northeast. 

 Over one skeleton, whose head pointed to the east, were laid two others 

 (see base section), the head of one to the south, of the other to the north. 

 AVith this group were found one bone bodkin or needle (Fig. 3) ; two 



,^^-,:...„. ^^^_„_.,^_,,j-^^.-.p-r-^^if^ arrow-points (Fig. 4); several 



■ pieces of animal bones, with a 



lew fragments of pottery (Fig. 5). 



: In An gust, 1880, in company 



|: with Mr. J. E. Snider, the writer 



fci, .^ i'ontinned his investigation by 



f) -^ commencing a trench on the west 



""v / side about 4 feet from the base 



I ,,, (base section, dotted lines), and 



it "^ trenched to the center shaft, re- 



f> .J^" moving four skeletons. Three of 



../ these lay with their heads to the 



'■*' east; one with the head to the 



south, or rather a little to the 



riG. 5 -Pottery fn.m Gii.iwei! Mouu.i. sontheast(see base plan of sketch 



A). With the group nf tbree were found several pieces of pottery, one 



•v^' 



Fig. 6.—^ 't:rnt disk from Glidwell Mound. 



