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width. It was semiflexed and lying on its back, knees bent and to the 

 right with head pointing to the north-northwest. Around its neck 

 and intruding into the cranial cavity were a number of small disk- 

 shaped shell beads. 



Burial No. IS. — The extended remains of an infant lay in a small 

 oval grave 1.7 feet by 1.2 feet. The top of the grave was 1.3 feet from 

 the present surface. Above the left shoulder was a small textile- 

 impressed earthen bowl with the mouth facing upward. 



Bwi-^al No. 20. — Alongside the right side of a semiflexed mature 

 male lay a bone awl made from a splinter of deer bone. The skeleton 

 lay in an oval grave approximately 4.2 feet long by 2.1 feet wide at a 

 depth of 1.4 feet from the present surface. 



Burial No. £1. — A very fine chunkey stone bearing upon one of its 

 concave surfaces the engraved imprint of a "turkey track" was found 

 to the left of the head of an adult male. Due to post mortem shifting 

 the head position was shifted to the right while the skeleton itself lay 

 in a semiflexed position on its back. This was one of the better pre- 

 served skeletons. The grave was 53 inches long. Its width could not 

 be determined, but we could trace the outlines of the grave to within 

 28 inches of the present surface. 



Burials Nos. ^2 and 23. — This is another of the many multiple 

 burials. The semiflexed skeleton of an adult female (burial No. 22) 

 lay in a common grave with the extended remains of an infant (burial 

 No. 23) . The female was originally placed on her back with her arms 

 by her sides and her knees drawn up towards her chest. The weight 

 of the grave fill had subsequently forced her lower extremities out of 

 position downward and to the right. Above the right shoulder of the 

 child law a turtle carapace which, because it was crest uppermost, 

 could not have been used as a receptacle. This was probably the 

 totem symbol of their clan. Both skeletons were fairly well preserved. 



Burial No. 29. — In a fairly well-defined oval grave, oriented south- 

 southeast by north-northwest, whose greatest diameter measured 44", 

 lay the semiflexed remains of a female, aged 26-30, whose head 

 lay to the south-southeast. This was an especially deep grave. We 

 picked up the first indications at a depth of 58 inches beneath the 

 surface and traced it downward for another 1.9 feet. Associated with 

 the burial were a number of disk-shaped shell beads and a few tubular 

 copper beads, as well as two well-made planoconvex stone adzes. 

 One of these adzes lay adjacent to the right of her jaw with the pit 

 portion resting upon the right clavicle, while the other was adjacent 

 to the inside of the left arm and lying on the upper left portion of her 

 rib case. 



Burial No. 30. — Associated with a poorly preserved adolescent 

 skeleton, in an oval grave 31 inches in its longest diameter, was a bone 

 awl alongside the lower portion of the left humerus. The grave had 



