8 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BuLL. 37 
MOUND NO. 2 
This mound was 43 feet in diameter and 5 feet in height. Lying 
8 feet east of the center and 6 inches above the bottom was a crushed, 
decayed skull, the few teeth remaining with it being much worn. 
Beginning 2 feet nearer the center was a deposit of other bones too 
much decayed for identification with exception of short pieces of 
femora and tibiz. These bones lay on different levels within the’ 
space of a foot, occupying an area about 4 feet in diameter. 
At the center was an irregular hole 14 to 16 inches in diameter and 
a foot in depth. Filling this hole, and extending above and around 
it, was a deposit of mingled charcoal, soil, and burned earth, which 
had been brought here from 
a fire near by. 
Lying west and north of 
the center, on the bottom, 
distributed over a space ap- 
proximately 1 foot by 3 feet, 
were the charred bones, 
in very small fragments, 
of at least two, possibly 
of three, persons. Among 
these remains were a bone 
and a claw of a panther. 
All were covered with earth 
much burned, mingled with 
charcoal and soil, as if the 
débris of the pyre had been 
thrown on them. Close by 
Fic. 1. Pot from Granmann mound no. 3. was a fragment of a femur 
or a tibia; also a skull from which the entire upper jaw had been 
removed before burial. All the unburned bones were very soft and 
much decayed. 
MOUND NO. 3 
This mound stood on the first bluff west of Gasconade. After 
having undergone much cultivation it measured 75 feet north and 
south by 50 feet east and west, and 5 feet in height. Beginning 25 
feet south of the apex, a trench 16 feet wide was run toward the 
center. Four feet from the starting point and a foot above the 
bottom was found a crushed and decayed skull, having its vertex 
toward the south. With exception of four teeth, no traces of bones 
accompanied it. At a distance of 24 feet to the north of this skull, 
situated 6 inches higher, was another skull; this lay on the left side 
with the vertex toward the east; resting on this cranium was a part 
