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thus revealing successive levels of occupancy and affording a clear 

 picture of the manner in which the mounds were constructed. The 

 mounds of the second type, most of which were on the property of 

 Mr. Ulysses Veazey, were unstratified. Human bones were found in 

 two of the large Morgan mounds and in one mound on the A^eazey 



Fig. 202. — Detached skulls in Copell burial 

 ground on Pecan Island. The hones when 

 uncovered were soft and usually broken, but 

 all skulls, some fifty in number, were saved 

 and have been repaired. 



place. The skulls from the former locality were all of the well-known 

 " flat-head " type, which resulted from the practice of tightly binding 

 the head during infancy. Skulls from the Veazey mound and those 

 from another burial ground on the property of Mr. John Copell, 

 which proved to belong to the same culture, were for the most part 

 undeformed. A similar distinction was observed in the material re- 



