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Hakes; another awl, and a crushed human skull (the entire skeleton 

 being afterward found in place), from beneath which one of the axes, 

 completely wrapped in a crumbling covering of cloth and bark impreg- 

 nated with copper carbonate, was taken. 



Continuing the excavation, another copper axe was found near the 

 left shoulder of the skeleton, and a large quantity of beads, both of 

 pearl and shell, dull and fragile, in the region of the neck and chest. 



Having removed the remaining earth from the trench, another cross- 

 gallery was now started just at its southern end, and in the western 

 branch of this gallery we very soon came upon the body of the skele- 

 ton to which the skull before found belonged. It was the skeleton of 

 an adult male, lying extended, face up, with the head to the north-west. 



Close by the right side, and with its head on a level with the shoul- 

 der of the larger skeleton, was that of a child of perhaps ten years, its 

 lower maxilla showing the rudimentary permanent teeth under some of 

 the milk teeth which were still in their sockets, while the wisdom teeth 

 had not been erupted. Just beyond the child's skeleton was found a 

 third copper awl, and the floor of the mound here rose quite abruptly 

 about ten inches, like the side of a basin, while it sloped considerably 

 under the bodies toward their feet. 



As the south abutment at the entrance of the last arch constructed 

 rested directly upon the thighs and knees of the larger skeleton, these 

 parts were, of necessity, left for the time undisturbed, and a gallery was 

 run southward from the end of the trench, where we soon came upon 

 the feet in place, about which and the legs were more shell beads. 

 Below the feet from eighteen to thirty-six inches, and about two feet 

 apart, was a row of three more copper awls, making a total of six of 

 these pins, five of which were upright when found, piercing the floor, 

 above which they projected one or two inches. They are from four to 

 seven inches in length, about one-eighth of an inch through, hammered 

 square, except at the pointed lower end, and turned abruptly over at 

 the top, being similar to those shown in Figs, i and 5, PI. VI., Vol. I., 

 Proc. Dav. Acad. Nat. Sci. The suggestion made by one of our party, 

 that they might have been used to pin down a covering of skins or cloth 

 placed reverently over the bodies of the dead, seems plausible in view 

 of their relation to the skeletons and the floor. 



Beyond the feet of the bodies we dug for some distance into the side 

 of the last gallery, till there, also, the floor began to rise, as it had at 

 their right and, less markedly, at some distance above their heads be- 

 yond the grouped relics, forming, as it were, part of the rim of a dish 



