128 BULLETIN 18 3, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Babcock B. — This mound was situated near the southern tip of the 

 hogback, 500 yards southwest of Babcock A, on a small shelf directly 

 across the mouth of the valley from Pearl B. It was completely ex- 

 cavated by two young men from Kansas City in July 1937, though I 

 was unaware of this work until so advised by Shippee the following 

 fall (letters of November 3 and 14, 1937). When I examined the 

 mound in 1938, it proved to be a crude walled enclosure basically 

 of the same type as those on the Pearl and Nolan properties. The 

 chamber was elliptical in plan, 9 feet 6 inches wide by 10 feet long, 

 with the long axis north and south. The wall, generally with two 

 but on the north side with four courses of slabs, averaged between 

 15 and 20 inches in height. At the south end a gap 4 feet wide 

 opened into a sort of subcircular vestibule 5 feet wide by 4 feet long. 

 This showed no clear evidence of ever having been walled, and the 

 excavators aver that no carefully built passage, like those at Nolan's 

 and PearPs, existed. The excavations everywhere had been put down 

 to a depth of nearlj^ a foot below the base of the wall, but I am not 

 certain whether this is due to the fact that a burial basin actually 

 existed. Nothing in the dirt thrown out, or in the excavator's re- 

 marks, indicates that a prepared burial surface of sand, gravel, rocks, 

 or puddled clay existed, though it seems likely that the floor had 

 been at least smoothed down. None of the stones showed a discolor- 

 ation due to fire, nor did we note any burnt clay or charcoal in the 

 fill thrown out. 



As to the contents of the chamber, our remarks rest wholly on 

 informal information supplied by Mr. Hansen. Human bones, 

 unburnt, were piled in disorderly fashion against the walls on all 

 sides. How many individuals may have been present is uncertain. 

 A shipment of bones from the mound, forwarded by Mr. Shippee, 

 has been made available for study at the National Museum; Dr. 

 Stewart's observations thereon have been presented in the appendix 

 to the present report. 



Cultural material included a pile of unworked fresh-water mussel 

 shells, w^hich lay near the southwest corner ; apparently none of these 

 were preserved. There were also two or three small cord-roughened 

 sherds and a heavy stemmed arrowpoint. Of more interest are two 

 pottery vessels reconstructed almost wholly from sherds found among 

 the bones. There is doubt as to the position of the sherds other than 

 that they lay near the back wall of the chamber — probably one group 

 near the northwest, the other toward the northeast, corner. The 

 smaller of these pots (pi. 37, h) is 12 cm. high with a maximum 

 body diameter of 11.5 cm. In shape, it has a round body, constricted 

 neck, and a flaring rim. In profile, the rim is channeled interiorly, 

 and culminates in a flat horizontal undecorated lip. Color varies 



