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been carefully laid bare with trowel and brush so as not to disturb 

 any of the bones before the photographs could be taken. 



A problematical case was that of a folded skeleton in pit 66, 

 lying in regular order at a depth of 36 inches. One of the femurs 

 had been separated from the skeleton after burial and lay just 



Fin- 3i Folded skeleton from the Silverheels site, Erie county. 

 A serpent ettigy pipe lies over a barbed conical spearhead near the 

 face and thirteen arrowheads lie near the knees. 



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beneath an ash layer only 12 inches from the surface. Another 

 strange feature was the finding of the charred remnant of a log of 

 wood 4 or 5 inches in diameter lying beside the skeleton. 



Only five skeletons in all w^ere found extended, and of one, but 

 a few crumbling fragments remained. They lay deeper than the 



