MYER] GORDON TOWN SITE 541 
The labor of the six people who probably occupied No. 79 could 
have made it similar to No. 3 in every respect in two days’ time. 
In other words, the extreme difference between the dwellings and the 
positions of the highest and lowest in this town of the younger days 
was the difference between two cottages belonging to laboring men, 
on the same street, in some modern industrial town, where the men 
work side by side and earn about the same wage. There was no 
great place on the hill, neither was there the hovel in the hollow 
below. 
GRAVE P 
In probing portions of this town site not covered with house cir- 
cles an adult stone-slab grave was found near house circle No. 62, 
20 feet west of the large hackberry tree shown at the most eastern 
point on the wall. This grave is shown in Plate 113, a. Its top 
was from 1 to 6 inches below the present surface of the soil. 
The body was that of an adult male lying on its back.” The grave 
ran W. 10° N., head at east end. An earthenware pot, shown in 
Plate 119, a, was lying on its side, to the right of the head. This pot 
was filled with earth containing traces of organic matter. Dr. W. E. 
Safford examined this material. He reported, ‘‘ Evidently of organic 
origin, which may perhaps have been finely ground maize made into 
a kind of mush.” ‘Therefore it is probable that this vessel contained 
ground maize made into mush for food on the journey to the other 
world. 
In the grave there was a small cylindrical bone bead near the 
throat of the body three-fourths of an inch long and three-eighths 
of an inch in diameter. The coffin was filled with earth taken from 
the surrounding surface soil, which at that time contained a few 
scattered fragments of domestic pottery. Here, as elsewhere in this 
town, a few periwinkles had been distributed through the earth as 
it was placed in the grave. No periwinkles were found in the sur- 
rounding surface soil. 
Tue Owr Erricy 
The unique owl effigy pottery bead, shown in Plate 120, a, was 
found resting on the man’s forehead in grave P. It had probably 
been attached to a bandeau or some other headdress or to the hair. 
The pottery owl-effigy vase shown in Plate 119, 6, was found by 
Mr. H. L. Gordon in cutting a road along the outer western edge of 
circle No. 23. It was presented by him to Doctor Fewkes. It is 
4 inches in height. Two pottery owl images, very similar to the 
Gordon vase, were found in stone-slab graves in the Noel Indian 
1 U.8. National Museum, Division of Physical Anthropology, No. 316099. See Dr. Hrdli¢ka’s report 
on this interesting skeleton, p. 612. 
