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color from black fire marks to brown and buff. This pot was sitting 

 almost upright at the southern edge of the mound, close to an infant's 

 skull. The rim had been crushed in and was partly missing. From 

 the weathered appearance of the break, the vessel must have been 

 placed in the mound in a damaged condition. One broken handle 

 was 6 inches above the pot and was caught on a stone that had evi- 

 dently been placed over the burial. 



"No. 1346 is radically different from the other vessels described [pi. 

 42, el . About the only similarity it holds is a shoulder and a rounded 

 base. The upper bo<ly curves in and up to form an almost vertical 

 rim with a rounded lip. Fine grit, with scattered larger grains, coats 

 the outer and inner surfaces, which are reddish brown. The paste 

 seems to be a dark gray with fine grit-tempering material. On the 

 lower body horizontal cord impressions, partly smoothed out, can be 

 seen. This vessel was not broken when found and is still hard, heavy, 

 and strong. In the mound it was 6 feet northwest of the center and 

 was sitting upright G inches from the surface. No burial was associ- 

 ated with it. Diameter at the shoulder is 11.5 cm., rim diameter is 

 10 cm., the height is 7.3 cm., and the walls are 5 mm. thick." 



Twenty-eight potsherds included cell- and grit-tempered pieces, 

 some of the latter having cord-roughened exterior surfaces. In the 

 south part of the mound, dissociated from all skeletal remains, was a 

 small bent tubular hematite pipe 33 mm. long. This has a short spur 

 extending out from the bend below the bowl, and is covered with fine 

 closely spaced parallel encircling striations. Two heavj^-stencmied 

 points similar to those from the Renner site were taken from a burial 

 at the north edge of the mound, and there is a portion of a third from 

 the southeast edge. Other specimens included a thin leaf -shaped blade 

 13.2 cm. long by 4.6 cm. wide, six scrapers, three expanding base drills, 

 hematite, and fragments of sandstone, pumice, galena, and polished 

 stone. 



The north mound was opened with team and scraper in 1935 b}' a 

 Kansas City relic collector. Shippee writes that it had been "badly 

 wrecked when I first observed the men at work on it. They had graded 

 away the greater portion of a 5-f oot-deep cap of sterile earth and were 

 scraping into several stone-marked burials. . . . From one of these 

 there was dragged a broken pot and a clay elbow pipe, made in the 

 effigy of a bird with folded wings. The head had been broken off by 

 the scraper and was never found. ... A large celt or ax blank and 

 some chert blades found in the loose earth from this mound are said to 

 have been 'salted' to keep the man paying for the work interested. . . . 

 There were no more than 10 burials found and nothing is known about 

 the manner in which they were placed. In the work carried on by me 

 from the north edge I never encountered a burial. . . . 



