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MOUND EXPLORATIONS. 



nicdiattsly iitKler b wiis aiiotber .stouts grave or coffin, 3 feet long, 1 J feet 

 wide and deep, extending north and south. The head of the skeleton 

 was toward the north, but the feet were doubled back under the frame 

 ill order to get it in the allotted space. Tlie only things found with 

 this skeleton were some beads around the neck. 



Atjfthe remains of a child 

 were found without any 

 stones about them. Some 

 shell beads were around the 

 neck and wrist, and an en- 

 graved shell on the breast. 

 Grave h was a stone cist 

 1^ feet square and 1 foot 

 deep, stone slabs on the 

 four sides and top, but the 

 bottom consisted simply of 

 earth hardened by fire. This 

 contained only a trace of 

 bones and presented indi- 

 cations of at least partial 

 cremation, as all around the 

 slabs, outside and inside, 

 was a solid mass of charcoal, 

 and the earth was burned 

 to the depth of a foot. 



Grave i, a stone cist 4^ 

 feet long, IJ feet wide and 

 deep; bottom of earth; con- 

 tained the remains of a 

 skeleton restingon theback, 

 head north, andfcetdoubled 

 back so as to come within 

 the coffin. On the breast 

 was a thin plate of copper, 

 5 inches square, with a hole 

 through the center. Beads 

 were found around the 

 wrists, and rather more than 

 ai quart about the neck. 

 At J were the remains of 

 a small child, without stone surroundings; under the head was a piece 

 of copper, and about the neck and wrists a number of shell beads. 



These graves were not on the same level, the top of some being but 2 

 feet below the clay bed (No. 3), while others were from 2 to 3 feet lower. 

 All the articles alluded to as obtained in this mound were forwarded at 

 once to the Bureau of Ethnology, and are now in the National Museum. 



Fig. 18().- 



- Figured copper plate from mound i 

 Etowah group. 



