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ently that of a female of mature age. 

 Between the knees, the remains of a 

 small infant were laid, the skull of the 

 latter being fragmentary. The right 

 hand of the adult was below the infant 

 and the left hand around the throat. 

 The skull was intact and had nearly 

 all the teeth. One finger bone had 

 grown together at the joint in a crook- 

 ed position apparently due to disease. 

 On lifting the ribs of the right side, an 

 arrow-head of flint fell out between the 

 fourth and fifth bones. These skele- 

 tons lay about two and a half feet be- 

 low the grass, and a pocket of oyster 

 shells was over the head. The woman's 

 remains lay within a space about 31 

 inches long by 50 inches wide, flat 

 in the hard red sand bed facing 

 east. 



"Shortly after these remains were 

 discovered, Mr. Chenoweth extended 

 the excavation previously made by 

 the explorers at the side of a large 

 oyster shell pit in the same bank of 

 sand, and uncovered a male skeleton 

 of which he preserved the skull. Some 

 small fragments of the skeleton were 

 afterwards found by the writer on this 

 spot. Contractors for the sewer in 

 Seaman Avenue also uncovered the 

 remains of a young female close to the 

 position of several of the shell pits 

 previously described. 



' ' These interments have some curi- 

 ous features. The position of the 

 remains facing east, sometimes west, 

 the absence of weapons or other ob- 

 jects and the oyster shells packed with 

 or above them are subjects for inter- 

 esting discussion on which future 

 finds may throw much light, as also 

 upon the peculiar double burial and 

 the burnt state of the female re- 

 mains." 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



Anthropological Papers of the Amer- 

 ican Museum of Natural History, Vol- 

 ume III; Hudson-Fulton Publication, 

 1 ' The Indians of Greater New York 

 and the Lower Hudson. " New York, 

 1909. 



This volume contains a series of 

 papers by Messrs. Finch, Bolton, 

 Harrington, Speck, Schrabisch, and 

 Skinner, dealing minutely with all 

 phases of the subject in a thoroughly 

 scientific and less popular manner than 

 the present volume. Especial atten- 

 tion is paid to the research in local 

 archaeology, with maps and notes on 

 most of the important sites. The 

 Museum also published a guide leaf- 

 let to the collection on exhibition. 



Skinner, Alanson, The Indians of 

 Greater New York; Torch Press, 

 Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1915. 



A very full and thoroughgoing ac- 

 count of the history and ethnology 

 of the local Indians, containing many 

 sources not available at the time when 

 volume III of the Anthropological 

 Papers was published. The archaeol- 

 ogy of the locality is also written up 

 in a more popular style than the 

 preceding publication. These two 

 papers with the present guide leaflet 

 bring the subject of our local Indians 

 thoroughly up to date and summarize 

 the older authors. 



Ruttenber, E. M. t History of the 

 Indian Tribes of the Hudson River. 

 Albany, 1872. 



A little old-fashioned in style, and 

 with a few errors, but brimful of all 

 sorts of useful information on tli<> 

 subject. 



Beauchamp, Rev. W. M., Bulletin 

 of the New York Stutc Museum. Nos. 

 16, 18, 22, 32, 41. 



