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flexed male lying on his right side with head pomting toward the 

 east. The carapace was in the same state of decomposition as the bones 

 so that we were unable to salvage it. The crest of the carapace was 

 uppermost and evidently nothing had been placed under it, for it was 

 smashed almost flat. We searched the area under the carapace and 

 found only sterile sand. 



Burial No. 61. — A miniature clay dipper (pi. 58, c) was found with 

 an infant's skeleton. The skeleton was extended as was usual for 

 very small children. Its head was in a north-northwesterly direction. 

 Afforded ideal drainage because this burial occurred well up in the 

 midden layer, the bones were in surprisingly good condition. 



Burial No. 64- — In close proximity to a semiflexed adult male 

 skeleton lay a large turtle carapace, smaller than the one located with 

 burial No. 57. The carapace, resting upon its natural base, lay in 

 the angle formed by the right thigh and the right side. Nothing 

 was found beneath the shell. The man's body was placed on its back 

 and when found the legs were bent and twisted to the right. 



Burial No. 65. — A small conoidal-based clay olla which was tilted 

 on its side and filled with darkened sand was found near the left hip 

 of the extended skeleton of a child age 6-8 (pi. 79, a) . One-fourth of 

 the rim of the olla was missing. A hunt for this missing portion was 

 made through the grave but it was not found. This indicates that 

 the Indians made use of incomplete clay vessels as part of burial 

 offerings. Grave fill consisted of a dark brownish-colored sand. 



Burial No. 67. — Associated with the badly scattered remains of an 

 infant were five good-sized waterworn stones, the butt end of a stone 

 celt, a typical chert Woodland-based projectile point, and a badly 

 decayed turtle carapace. These were all found in an area 3.2 feet long 

 by 2.0 feet wide at a depth of 3.3 feet, well beneath any cultural deposit. 

 This disorderly assortment was encountered unexpectedly, since there 

 were no indications that anything lay there. The few infant bones 

 that were present were only faintly indicated; hence they could not 

 be saved for study purposes. 



Burial No. 68. — Not far from burial No. 67 and on the same plane 

 were the fragmentary remains of another infant. Its bones were badly 

 decomposed but appeared to be in anatomical order. Above and to the 

 left of the head was a crude disk-shaped greenstone bearing slight 

 depressions or indentations on each side (pi. 75, h). It is thought 

 that this object was a handstone used with bow drills, hence the cen- 

 trally placed depressions. 



Burial No. 73. — This burial contained the only evidence of an in- 

 stance of violence among the inhabitants of this prehistoric village. 

 Here we found the tip portion of a quartz projectile point embedded 

 in the basal portion of the right humerus just above the elbow region. 

 The point penetrated the bone slightly over 3/16 of an inch. 



