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Mound No. 31 



Mound No. 32 was situated quito close to No. 31, which it very 

 closely resembled in hoth size and construction. At a depth of 

 9 feet the end of a small building constructed of squared blocks of 

 limestono was brought to light. The walls were still standing to a 

 height of 2 to 3 feet, and showed traces of a red stucco covering on 

 their inner surfaces. The cement floor of the building and the plat- 

 form upon wliich it stood could also be traced. Ljang upon this 

 floor were five pottery vessels and an imfinished fhnt celt. Two 

 of these vessels were precisely similar to that shown in figure 73, a; 

 one is a large, circular, shallow plaque, of rather tliick reddish-brown 

 pottery, in the center of which a small hole has been made, evidently 

 with the object of Hindering the plaque useless. The last two vessels 

 are illustrated in figure 75, a, h. A is an unusually large vessel of very 

 coarse, thick, red pottery, 18 inches high, which had probably been 



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Fig. 75. — Pottery vessels found in Mound No. 32. 



used to contain corn or some such dry material, as the. pottery was 

 too friable and soft for a cooking pot, or even to hold water, i? is a 

 small tliree-legged vase, 4 inches high, of coarse, unpainted pottery. 

 Each of these five vessels, with the exception of the plaque, contamed 

 a single polished greenstone bead. The celt was roughly blocked out 

 of yellowish fhnt. No objects except those above described were found 

 with these vessels, nor were there any traces of hmnan burial. Exca- 

 vatiuas were made in the mound to the ground level, and it was found 

 'm bo CT -Dosed below the platform upon which the building stood of 

 a sohd ma s of rubble and lunestone held together by loose, friable 

 mortar. .lere are nmuerous groups of mounds of all sizes in the 

 neighborhood, and judging by these, and by the potsherds and fhnt 

 and obsidian chips which one finds strewn over the surface of the 

 soil in great profusion, it must have been a densely populated region 

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