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MOUND EXPLORATIONS. 



Fourteen .skeletou.s were discovered in tliis iiiouiid, all lyiug extended 

 in a horizontal position, but with their heads in different directions, as 

 shown in Fig. 266. Some of the burials took place subsequent to the 

 formation of the lire bed, as a few of the skeletons were above it or 

 resting on it. Xos. 1 and 2 were lying face up, heads southwest, at a 

 depth of IS inches. No. 3 lay with the head to the northwest, about 

 20 inches below the surface of the mound ; about the wrists aud hands 



were some small shell beads, 

 but none about the neck, 

 where they are usually found. 

 Ko. 4 was lyiug on its back, 

 head to the south ; No. 5 with 

 the head to the southwest. 

 No. G was about the center 

 of the mound and at the depth 

 of 3 feet, head northeast. It 

 was mucli better preserved 

 than those nearer the top. 

 A few small shell beads were 

 lying about the neck and 

 breast. No. 7 was lying face 

 up, head northeast, left hand 

 by the side, but the right 

 arm bent upward so as to 

 biing the hand above the 

 head. By this hand was the 

 water vessel shown in Figs. 

 267 and 26S, made to repre- 

 sent an owl. The i^ecnliarity 

 of this specimen is found in 

 the feather marks which or- 

 nament the l)ack or portion 

 representing the wings. The 

 marliings, instead of being- 

 like those on the Zufii or Pu- 

 eblo pottery — although the 

 vessel is precisely of the pat- 

 tern made by the Pueblo 

 tribes — are of the strictly 

 Mexican tyjie. This vessel 

 was close to the skull, and 

 almost touching the right hand. At each side of the head was a large 

 sea shell {Busycon pcrrerxioii), one of them IS inches long, the circum- 

 ference at the widest part 22 inches. About the neck and breast were 

 several hundred shell beads. Skeleton No. 8 was lyiug in the same po- 

 sition aud about the same depth as No. 7. Near the right hand were 



Fl<i. 267. — AA'ater vessel. Callaway mound. 



