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BUREAU OF AMEEICAN ETHiSTOLOGY 



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conches, cockles, snails, and hooties (a large variety of fresh- 

 water snail still eaten by the natives). A block of crystalline Ume- 

 stone, 18 inches long by 8 inches high and 12 inches broad, was 

 found in one of the semicircular pits leading from the trench at 

 the upper border of space A, figure 23. It was traversed by 14 longi- 

 tudinal grooves on its upper surface, wliich was shghtly concave; 

 each groove was ^ inch broad by | inch deep, quite smooth, and 

 nearly straight. The stone had seemingly been used as a hone for 

 giving an edge to small stone implements. 



Fig. 23.— Diagram of trenches in Mound No. 6. 



Extending out toward the northeast from the main mound was a 

 low structure (fig. 22, G) 4 feet in height and 25 yards m length. 

 It was composed throughout of layers of clay, rubble, and 

 limestone dust, not very clearly separated. Three separate inter- 

 ments were found beneath this mound near its center (fig. 22, H)", 

 the bones in all of which were very much decayed. From the first 

 of these the shallow bowl (fig. 24, a), 7^ mches in diameter by 

 1^ inches deep, together with the vase d, 8 inches in height, were 

 taken. The vase was of rather fine pottery, painted a uniform 

 dark red throughout. Nothing else was found with this intennent. 



