MYER] GORDON TOWN SITE 521 
skeleton in the southern end of the coffin is now in the United States 
National Museum, Division of Anthropology, No. 316086. This 
child was about 2 years of age. The one in the northern end (United 
States National Museum, Division of Anthropology, No. 316087) was 
that of a child about 7 years of age. No ornaments were found with 
these bodies. The stone slabs of the coffins were neatly fitted and 
some of the edges had been straightened by rude chipping with stone 
hammers. After the bones of these children had been placed on the 
bottom of the coffin it had been filled with surface soil. This soil 
contained fragments of domestic pottery and a few periwinkle shells, 
which probably had been scattered through the soil when it was 
placed in the coffin, as the surface soil contained few, if any, such 
shells. These periwinkles probably represented food for the journey 
of the children on their way to the darkening land of the West. 
OTHER OBJECTS 
At 1 in the diagram (fig. 129) the beautiful yellow flint dagger 
shown in Plate 104,6, was found. This dagger was on the original 
surface of the floor, against the edge of the banquette (fig. 130). 
It had evidently been 
hidden underneath the 
bed or accidentally 
covered with refuse 
swept back against the 
raised embankment. 
Plate 102, c, is a photograph of a spherical object of pottery, three- 
fourths of an inch in diameter. Its use is unknown. It was found 
on the floor at 3, on the edge of the banquette (fig. 130), and was 
probably lost in the same manner as the dagger. 
The little broken pottery head shown in Plate 102, d, was found at 2. 
It probably came from a human-figure vase or bowl, and was dis- 
covered on the clay floor, against the banquette. 
Plate 102, e, represents a leaf-shaped implement, 6 inches in length, 
made of yellow chert. Like the others, it was found on the floor, 
on the east side of the wigwam, near the banquette. 
A fragment of a grayish-black bowl with beaded rim was found 
among the fragments of pottery scattered through the black loam 
which filled the interior of circle No. 3. 
A small portion of the interior of circle No. 3 was purposely lett 
unexcavated, and a portion of the black, glossy floor was preserved 
in situ for the benefit of future students. 
Plate 105 shows arrow heads, fragments of pottery, an implement 
made from the up of an antler, a bear’s tooth, and an ear plug or 
bead of black pottery. These were found scattered through the 
black loam which had accumulated in the interior of house circle 
Fic. 133.—Child in grave No. 5 
