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not saved. The vessel was filled with sand from the surface and 

 contained only a few fragmentary human bones, six or seven verte- 

 brae, lower leg bones and a section of femur. Beneath the urn was 

 a partial bundle burial. 



Burial urn 5 was close to 4 and of the same type.- The protecting 

 coral slabs projected above the surface, and a rectangular grinding 

 stone with rounded edges was to one side. The bottom of the urn, 

 which was not saved, was 24 inches below the surface and had a 

 small, perfectly round hole made from the inside in the bottom. It 

 contained two adult skulls, a complete skeleton, and a few frag- 

 ments of a child's cranium and jaw. 



The disposal of skulls around burial urn 6 was particularly strik- 

 ing (pi. 2, fig. 3; figs. 6, 7). The urn, which was not saved, was 



FiG_ 6.— Horizontal diagram of skulls and burial urn 6, Black Rock Basin, 



site I. 



badly broken in its upper portions and was mixed with numerous 

 other sherds in the top soil. The rim must have been within 6 inches 

 of the surface. Beach sand had sifted about the pot and skulls, and 

 the original pit had evidently been filled with it. The bottom of the 

 urn rested in the black occupational stratum 28 inches below the 

 surface (fig. 7). Coconut palm roots were growing through the urn 

 and the skulls. The burial urn itself contained the skull and dis- 

 articulated bones of one individual, evidently an old man. Around 

 the urn were seven skulls, all apparently adolescents of about the 

 same age. With one exception (fig. 6, skull 7), all were facing 

 clockwise. The tops of the skulls were 10 to 13 inches below the 

 surface. There were two other skulls (8, 9), with slightly heavier 

 supraorbital ridges, to the west of the burial urn (pl._ 2, fig. 3) ; these 



