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individual belonged. This is believed to be the only instance, to the 

 writer's knoAvledge, in which positive identification of the clan is made 

 manifest through grave furniture. The totemic animal is generally 

 regarded as both guide and benefactor to members of its clan. 



While investigating this portion of the site, 78 burials were un- 

 covered. Of this number 46 w^ere semiflexed, 18 were extended, 9 

 were flexed, and 5 were disturbed. We were able to distinguish 26 

 males and 19 females ; 33 either were small babies or adolescent chil- 

 dren or were so fragmentary that we could not determine their sex. 

 (See Appendix.) 



Most burials lacked grave goods but in a number we found shell 

 beads, shell gorgets, copper beads, turtle carapaces, celts, adzes, stone 

 and clay pipes, projectile points, stone disks, clay vessels, and a few 

 animal bones, some of which had been converted into tools. 



Head direction, in the greatest number of instances, was toward 

 the south-southeast. The remainder pointed in 14 different direc- 

 tions : 10 pointed to the east ; 8 pointed to the west ; 7 to the north-north- 

 west ; 6 to the north-northeast ; 5 to the northwest ; 3 each to the east- 

 northeast, to the north, and west-northwest ; 2 each to the south, west- 

 southwest, and south southwest ; and 1 each to the northeast, southeast, 

 and east-southeast. The remaining 15 had been disturbed by the for- 

 mer occupants of the village so that head direction could only be 

 supposed. 



For further information, those burials containing artifacts are 

 listed in the order in which they were recorded : 



Burial No. 1. — This is the burial of a small infant which lay flexed 

 in what appeared to be an oval pit, 2.8 feet in length by 1.1 foot in 

 width. The pit originated at a depth of 1.9 feet under the present 

 surface. The body lay on its left side with its head pointing to the 

 north. All bones were badly decomposed. Placed mouth upward 

 in front of the face was a small conoidal-based earthen bowl, which at 

 the time of finding was filled with the same colored sand that sur- 

 rounded the skeletal remains. Supposedly it originally held either 

 water or foodstuffs as an offering to the dead. 



Burials Nos. 4. and 5. — This was the first of the double burials to 

 be uncovered. The grave contained the skeletal remains of a 

 male, age 45-55 (burial No. 4) and that of a small child (burial No, 

 5). The male was semiflexed and lying on his left side while the 

 child was flexed and lying on its back. The child's legs had been 

 pushed out of their original placement and now rested toward the 

 right of the body. Aromid the neck and wrists of the child were a 

 number of small shell disk beads. The knees and feet of the male 

 rested upon large flat slabs of un worked sandstone, and a bone awl had 

 been placed near the waist. 



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