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its origin under a 6-inch layer of sterile river-deposited sand which 

 lay 54 inches below the ground level. 



Burial No. 31. — From a small oval grave, whose greatest diameter 

 measured in the vicinity of 12 inches, came the remains of a number 

 of milk teeth of a very young child. Below these, and in the normal 

 position of the neck, were found a number of large columella beads. 



Burial No. 33. — The closely flexed skeleton of a mature male lay in 

 a small oval grave 41 inches across its longest axis. Under its left 

 scapula was a crude anvil stone made from a sandstone slab. 

 Whether this was intentionally introduced into the grave prior to the 

 interment or was intended as part of the burial could not be deter- 

 mined. The head of the skeleton was to the west-southwest. 



Burial No. 31^.. — Associated with the right hand of a semiflexed ma- 

 ture male skeleton was a nondescript fired clay object (pi. 64, a) . It is 

 dark gray on the exterior and almost black in the interior. From 

 its shape one would surmise that it could not have had any useful 

 function. It appears to be a bit of clay that had been played with and 

 was finally cast into a nearby open fire which changed its physical 

 characteristics. Wliether this object, and similar objects found scat- 

 tered throughout the midden, had any cultural function is unknown. 

 It may have been accidently introduced into the grave along with the 

 grave fill. 



Burial No. 35. — This was the remains of a mature male, semiflexed, 

 and lying on its back with head to the west. After the burial a midden 

 pit was dug which encroached upon the grave. The cranium and 

 both axis and atlas and one-half of tlie mandible were removed 

 at that time. The rest of the skeleton was unmolested. In uncovering 

 these partial remains we found the remains of an olivella shell neck- 

 lace around what remained of the neck. In the region of the right 

 groin was a carapace of Terrepene Carolina with its crest uppermost. 

 It was filled with a dark soil containing half a bone bead, a deer can- 

 non bone awl, and a large chip of green chert. Slightly down from 

 the left groin and on the upper portion of the left thigh was placed 

 another carapace of Terrepene Carolina whose crest was also upper- 

 most. Inside this carapace was a light-colored sand and a badly 

 eroded Elliptic complanatus Solander. To the left of the first cara- 

 pace and above the second were the thigh bones of a dog. Beneath 

 these thigh bones was a section of a bird bone from which a portion 

 had been cut. Around and on top of the first carapace were eight 

 projectile points, six of quartz and two of chert; to the left were a 

 natural rounded rock and a large chip of chert. Around both wrists 

 of the individual were additional olivella beads as well as some disk- 

 shaped shell beads. Adjacent to the disk-shaped beads were two 

 elk milk teeth pendants (identified by Dr. D. H. Johnson, Department 

 of Zoology, U.S. National Museum). In contrast to the thickly 



