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name he did not know, assisted by Mr. Fred Johnston, dig out a 
complete Indian skeleton just over the crest of the southwest end of 
the mound on the seaward side. It was common on such occasions 
for people to have the idea of doing a little digging around the 
premises for Indian relics. 
Mr. Ernest Hunt, of Santa Barbara, had for years a skull from the 
Burton Mound with an Indian arrowhead embedded in it. This 
skull he took along when he moved to his present home on San 
Andres Street. Mr. Hunt instituted for me a thorough search of the 
barn and premises, and while neither he, Mrs. Hunt, nor his son 
have any knowledge to the effect that the skull was taken by anyone 
or thrown away, the search at this late date has been unsuccessful. 
Miss Laura Holt, employee of the Santa Barbara post office, 
informs us that her deceased brother, Philip Holt, once found a 
skull with an arrowhead in it at the mound. That was many years 
ago. ‘The arrowhead was struck into the side of the head. Mrs. 
Rachel Short, of Santa Barbara, had this skull at one time. Miss 
Holt stated that her brother gave some relics at one time to the 
Santa Barbara Society of Natural History, and the skull from Burton 
Mound may have found its way into that collection, or possibly to 
the Smithsonian Institution. 
Mr. William Hayward, of Santa Barbara, once dug up some bones 
at Burton Mound, and some of these may be included with some relics 
from Gaviota now stored at Hazard’s bicycle store. 
Dr. P. M. Jones, of San Francisco, did some archeological work 
on San Joaquin Valley mounds in December, 1899, and made an 
archeological reconnaissance trip down the coast of California the 
following spring. Arriving at Santa Barbara, he learned of the 
Burton Mound and that the work was about to start on the new 
hotel there. In vain he appealed to Mr. Frank M. Whitney and other 
stockholders in the Potter Hotel Co. for permission to excavate. 
When the excavations and grading were made for the hotel, which 
was built over the inland slope of the mound and fronted on its crest, 
numerous skeletons and relics were discovered by the workmen. 
These were placed in a room of the Burton adobe house, which was 
still standing at the time, and were later reburied near the present 
East Annex of the hotel by Mr. J. M. Carter, according to instruc- 
tions given him by Milo M. Potter. Information about this cache 
had been given me by Mr. José Ortega and was later given by Mr. 
Milo M. Potter and in splendid, detail by Mr. J. M. Carter. We 
found the cache, consisting principally of mortars and pestles, at the 
spot described. 
Also on the beach in front of the Syujttin site Indian objects have 
repeatedly been found. 
