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Feature 3, a pit, was roughly rectangular in outline and filled mostly 

 with a heavy concentration of humus soil. In cleaning out the pit we 

 found a few fresh-water mussels, fragments of broken bones, and only 

 a few sherds. Later we found that the pit almost touched the southern 

 limits of the floor of Feature 24 but it never encroached on it. Walls 

 were irregular and had a tendency to slope inward to a rounded base 

 1.9 feet below the mouth of the pit. 



Features 4 and 6 were one and the same pit. They both appeared 

 as two separate circular outlines but upon exploration they converged 

 into a single pit. It was one of those rambling affairs with uneven 

 sides and varying depths. At one time it encroached upon Burial No. 

 25. In so doing the cranial section of the skeleton was removed so 

 that the individual remained headless. We managed to recover a 

 number of sherds as well as some chipped-stone artifacts and a mass 

 of broken animal bones. 



Feature 5 is an oval pit, first noted about 1.0 foot beneath the sur- 

 face. Here the humus measured 0.5 foot in thickness. It was mostly 

 filled with a heavy dark humic soil. At the time it was dug it intruded 

 into an earlier burial, Burial No. 27, and in so doing had destroyed 

 practically the entire torso of this burial. 



Features 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 22, and 23 were all con- 

 fined to the floor area of Feature 24. None were very deep ; all were 

 more or less saucer shaped in form, and the material cultural remains 

 were meager. 



Features 8, 10, and 11 were located after the uppermost floor was 

 removed, indicating that they were placed into the structure while 

 floor number three was being used. 



Features 22 and 23 had their origin when the second floor from the 

 bottom was in use. These two pits penetrated the original floor. 

 Feature 23 was rather small and held a cache of fresh-water mussel 

 shells. Feature 22 was much deeper than the average floor pit. "Wlien 

 it was dug it penetrated the burial pit of Burial No. 35, at which time 

 the skull was removed leaving behind a decapitated skeleton. 



Features 7, 9, 19, 20, and 21 were to the east of Feature 24. None 

 were spectacular. All conformed to the pattern of the other midden 

 pits in that they were oval in outline, displayed sloping sides, and 

 terminated with rounded bases. 



HUMAN BURIALS 



Intermixed with the cultural debris were the remains of 31 adults, 

 12 children, and 5 dogs. We were able to separate the 43 human 

 burials into 13 males, 8 females, 12 children, and 10 undeterminates. 

 We found that burial disposition could be classified in seven catego- 

 ries: 7 flexed, 13 semiflexed; 10 bundle (pis. 84, 5; 85 5), either indi- 



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