FOWKE] . ANTIQUITIES OF MISSOURI aul 
was a clay pipe (fig. 7). Extending northwest from the three pots 
were burned bones whose position showed that an effort had been 
made to place them in proper order; but various discrepancies, as a 
patella by the head of a femur, showed they were cremated elsewhere 
and brought here. The bones of the lower legs were less burned than 
the femora, and the lat- 
ter in turn less than the 
skull and upper parts; 
but the feet resembled 
charcoal. These bones 
and pots lay in a mass 
of hard-burned, brick- 
like mixture of clay and 
sand; the leg bones were 
partly in this and partly 
below. it in mingled 
earth, burned earth, 
charcoal, and ashes— 
additional evidence that 
the cremation had taken 
place outside. The burned material extended beyond the remains 
on all sides. Clearly the earth on which the funeral pyre was 
erected, and perhaps more prepared for the purpose, had been 
gathered up and made into a sort of coffin and covering; the pots, 
possibly containing food, had been placed beside the fragments of 
skulls. In one pot was the 
head of an adult’s femur. 
Under the clay pipe were 
bones burned until porous 
as cinder and sparkling like 
jet. These were shghtly 
below the level of the high- 
est stones in the vault wall, 
and belonged to two bodies 
which had been laid side 
by side, extended, with the 
heads toward the southeast, 
and burned on the spot. 
At the outer side of each 
skull was a pot; between the skulls was another. All these pots were 
upright, filled with earth. 
Under one of the skulls was a pipe made of soft white material, 
much like chalk; in shape this somewhat resembles the ‘‘monitor” 
type (fig. 8). 
Fig. 7. Pipe from Dawson mound no. 11. 
Fic. 8. Pipe from Dawson mound no. 11. 
