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formed the bottom as well as the topmost layer. The hearth rested on 

 the curious black mold at the bottom. This black mold did not peue- 

 trate to the north and east border of the mound, but lay only over an 

 area of which this hearth was the center. 



S(aithwest of the hearth B and in connection with the remains of 

 skeleton No. 2 was pot !> (N. M. 13."il!l7), a bottle standing on a tripod 

 of human heads, shown in Fig'. 190. As traces of fire were noticed 

 above this pot and skeleton, there seems to have been more than one 

 ceremony attendant upon the burial of these articles. The pot 10 (X. 



Flii. 2(Hl. — A jiaiuted vesai-l from Hollywood nioiind. Georjii-i. 



M. 13ol!)4), wliich was found at the foot of this skeleton, seemed to have 

 had originally a wooden cover, for in the earth taken from the top some 

 small traces of decayed wood were uoticed, and in the earth about it 

 lay a clay pipe (N. M. 135223). Northeast of pot No. 9, and also near 

 the Are bed, was a long-ueck jar, 11 (N. M. 13529.")). (See Fig. 20O.) 

 At its western base lay the pipes (N. M. 135210, 135218, 135219, 

 135220, 135221, 135222), five typical fonns of which are shown in PI. 

 XXIV. Pipe3f( and.'?/>(1352ir>)wascarv('d from soapstone; the remainder 

 are of clay. Adjoining these articles on the northeast and on the same 



