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MOUND EXPLORATIONS. 



letting the earth above it fall in, though careful search failed t<i show 

 any traces of wood. On the bottom were found a skull, lying face 

 upward, some bones of the arm and neck, and the head of a femur, all 



Fig. 167 — Sectiuua along south trencli, iiiouud No. 1, Uniou county, Mississippi. 



80 badly decayed as to crumble almost at a touch. The teeth showed 

 that it had been a person not over middle age. Very fine particles of 

 galenite were adhering to the skull and to the earth in contact with it. 



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Fig. 168 Section along south trench, iiiouud Xo. 1, ITnion county, Mississippi. 



A number of shell beads, some the entire shells of a small marine si^ecies 

 others cut from a large shell and drilled, lay with the skull. The frontal 

 bone was saved; it showed no depression at the root of the nose, and 



