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JAMES AND POTOMAC ARCHEOLOGY 



rnuREAu OF 

 Lethnology 



were a gorget of fine finish; a lot of red and yellow oclier; a large 

 columella; disk beads; a net or weaving needle, liiglily polished from 

 use, with a hole in the end opposite the point (figure 7);' a bone orna- 

 ment in the form of a comb, and the upper portion of another having 

 a yoke or Y shajie, delicately worked and covered with incised lines 

 (figures 8 and 9). It will tlius be seen that the number of burial 

 accompaniments was un'usually large for this section. 



Over these remains, at the level of the bottom of the 

 mound, was a folded skeleton, resting on the left side, 

 the head to the south, with which were 2 columellas, one 

 r> the other G inches long, the latter having a bone drill 

 stuck in the perforation and broken oif even with the 

 end of the .shell. Just at the northern edge of the 

 grave were the bones of an infant; upon them was the 

 outer whorl of a conch shell which had been partly 

 filled with a])ont a i)intof jMarginella shells and inverted 

 over the body. Above the conch, with less than an inch 

 of earth between, lay the skull of an adult whose skeleton, 

 Avhich rested on the right side, was doubled, the head 

 being toward the south. 



At the center, a foot above the bottom, were human 

 bones, of large size, cremated before the flesh liad been 

 removed: some fragments only 2 or 3 inches long were 

 burned to a cinder at one end while the other ends 

 were as fresh in 'apiiearance as any bones found. A 

 columella and a i)anther claw were with them, but may 

 have fallen from the bone stratum above. In the earth 

 under the burned bone was considerable charcoal which 

 reached a few inches north of it and stopi)ed at the edge 

 of a grave a foot deep and 4 leet across, in which were 

 2 skeletons; one doubled, on right side, head toward 

 the south; the other apparently in the same position, 

 but so decayed as to make this uncertain. With the 

 first were 2 bone needles near the top of the skull, 3 colu- 

 mellas 5 to G inches long" under the skull, and a quartz 

 crystal near the chest; Avith the other were 5 columellas, 

 a flint knii'e, a flint drill, and a lot of shell beads, the 

 latter scattered over a foot in area. 



Immediately north of this grave was another a foot 

 deep containing the skeleton of an adult; tlie skeleton of 

 an infant with columellas and Marf/inella shells lay just 

 above it. On the natural level above these was a skeleton accom- 

 panied by a very fine gorget, a celt scraper, 7 pieces of hematite which 



'This implement bad been longer, with a hole farther from the point, hut had 

 been broken and a new eye drilled in it. 



Pig. 7. — Bone 

 needle from 

 Linville, Vir- 

 ginia. 



