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on fracture. With them were a number of small alligator heads, 

 made of similar stone and about the same size as the beads, pierced 

 at the base of the skull for suspension, six celts of green and chocolate- 

 colored stone, all finely polished, varying from 9 to IS cm. in length, 

 and a circular disk of iron pyrites 8 cm. in diameter by 5 mm. in 

 thickness. This object was milled round the edges like a com and 

 perforated in the center. With it was the broken half of a similar 

 ornament; probably both of these had been used as ear ornaments. 

 Trenches were dug through this mound in all directions, but nothing 

 further was found therein. 



Mound No. 12 



Mound No. 12, at Kendal, was situated close to the last-described 

 mound. Its flattened summit measured 28 feet by 20 feet; the 

 average height was approximately 1 5 feet. The momid extended east 

 and west, and on its eastern slope large slate slabs were seen protruding 

 from the surface. On excavating round these they were found to be 

 part of a chamber measurmg 7 feet by 3 feet; the south wall had 



Fig. 36.— Inscription on ax head, plate 16, c. 



caved in and the roof slabs also had been somewhat displaced. The 

 chamber was filled with earth, on removing which the following 

 objects were found upon the floor slabs: (1) Three nearly spherical 

 red pots, averaging 6 inches in diameter; they were so rotten from 

 the effect of moisture that it was impossible to remove them. (2) 

 Two small, rather crudely executed human faces cut in mottled 

 jadeite, and finely polished, with which were three green jadeite 

 beads. (3) A small quantity of greenish powder. (4) Fom* small 

 chisels of polished greenstone, varying from 2 to 4 cm. in length. 

 (5) One chisel made of very soft gray stone, which had been covered 

 externally with greenish paint somewhat resemblmg enamel, and very 

 closely simulating the genuine greenstone chisels with which it was 

 placed, except that it was much lighter in weight. Instances of 

 counterfeit implements and ornaments buried with the dead have 

 been found more than once throughout this area. 



Excavations were made along the flattened top of this mound, 

 and about 16 feet to the westward of the first one a second grave was 

 discovered. This was in a much better state of preservation than 



