102 EXPLORATION OF BURTON MOUND [BTH. ANN, 44 
Entire slate point. Gray. 133 mm. long, 8.5 mm. wide, 5 mm. thick. The base 
is bluntly rounded. (PI. 21, 0.) 
Entire slate point. Gray. 68 mm. long, 12 mm. wide, 5 mm. thick. Both 
ends bluntly rounded. (PI. 21, p.) 
Base fragment of slate point. Gray. 34 mm. long, 8 mm. wide, 5 mm. thick. 
Base fragment of slate point. Gray. 60 mm. long, 9 mm. wide, 4 mm. thick. 
Truncate base. 
Entire slate point. Gray. 36 mm. long, 7 mm. wide, 3.5 mm. thick. Truncate 
base. 
Entire slate point. Gray. 54 mm. long, 9 mm. wide, 4 mm. thick. Base 
bluntly rounded. 
PAINTS 
Indian pigments yielded up by the excavations consist of cakes 
or fragments of cakes of rather bright red hematite (Fe,O,), frag- 
ments of cakes and also natural fragments of chrome yellow limon- 
ite (Fe(OH).), and pieces of white earth or chalk (kaolin). The 
sources of all these substances occur in the vicnity. The cakes nearly 
enough intact to judge their former shape resemble the oblong cakes 
figured by Putnam.'** The paints, red, yellow, and white, were 
used both for body painting and for painting the surfaces of 
wood, shell, and rock. As far as is known, the white earth was never 
made into cakes. The principal finds are listed below. There were 
also irregular masses and stains of hematite in several of the graves. 
Lump of bright red hematite, 18 mm. long. This lump appears to be a frag- 
ment of a larger cake. 
Half a cake of bright red hematite, 65 mm, maximum diameter. The old 
surface is smooth and neatly rounded. 
Lump of darker colored, coarser, and somewhat hard-textured red hematite. 
This lump has a maximum diameter of 58 mm. and its surface presents irregular 
cleavages everywhere. 
Half of a eake of very bright red hematite paint. Maximum diameter 61.5 
mm. About half the original cake is intact. 
Almost entire cake of the darker colored red hematite paint, unusually gritty. 
A molded cake the original surface of which is still intact except where the 
ends are broken off. Squarish in section, the cake in its original.form was 
largest in the middle and tapered toward the ends. 102.5 mm. long, 45 mm. 
diameter. When moistened it stains a profuse brownish red color. (PI. 16, 7.) 
Half of a cake of very bright red hematite paint, 51 mm. maximum diameter. 
Fragment of a cake of very brownish red hematite paint which has a burnt 
appearance. Part of the original surface of the lump can be traced. 51.5 mm. 
maximum diameter: 
Lump of red hematite paint, of burnt appearance; 30 mm. long. A small 
part of the original surface is intact. 
Lump of hard red hematite paint, irregular in shape and dark in appearance ; 
59 mm. long. When wet it makes a very red stain. 
Fragment of the darker red hematite paint, 54 mm. greatest diameter. It 
shows considerable of the former surface of the cake from which it has been 
broken. 
18a Putnam, op. cit., p. 261. 
