General view witliin the vestibule of Mammoth Cave, showing some of the trenches which the Amer- 

 ican Museum Expedition dug for tlie purpose of examining the Indian refuse 



In this small chamber lay the skeleton of a woman in a rock shelter on Green River, six miles be- 

 low the Mammoth Cave. This type of stone grave burial is common to the Ohio Valley region, and is re- 

 garded as belonging to a relatively late period of Indian history. The box-like coffin was made by set- 

 ting up a number of stone slabs around an oval space about two and one half feet wide by three and 

 one half feet long, tlie whole being covered by two larger slabs 



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