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Extremely faint traces of what was probably a cane mat could be 
seen near the breast and arms and underneath the body. The body, 
bedecked with its best ornaments and its best garments, had been 
wrapped in this cane matting and placed in the grave immediately 
adjoining the domestic hearth. 
The grave was dug after the adjoining hearth had been in use. 
This is proved by the fact that several lumps of burned clay which 
came from the hearth were found scattered through the earth which 
entirely filled the interior of the grave. These evidently got into the 
coffin by accident when they were filling the interior. 
After the body, wrapped in the cane matting, had been placed in 
the grave, the shell spoon and the mortuary vessels, probably con- 
taining food and drink, were placed at its head. Then the coffin 
Fic. 145.—Restored pot from fragments in mosaic floor in grave at 1 
was filled with earth. Periwinkles, for food on the long journey, 
were scattered in this earth as it was placed in the grave. 
A grooved pendant, made from the tooth of a small bear, was with 
the body. It probably had been attached to some portion of the 
clothing, as it was not in such position as would indicate its being 
worn as a pendant to a necklace. 
Plate 110, c, shows this small grave after the body had been re- 
moved. It will be seen that the bottom of the coffin had been 
covered with a mosaic of fragments of domestic pottery, which rested 
on the clay subsoil floor of the wigwam. These fragments appeared 
to belong to a few vessels which had been broken in course of domestic 
use. Among them were three small pieces of a fine image vessel 
representing a raccoon, similar to the raccoon vessel reproduced in 
Plate 134,a. The grave was situated in the banquette which ran 
around the wall. 
