486 MOUND EXPLORATIONS. 



bent across the stonmcli. The right arm of skeleton Xo. 1(> was bent 

 so that the liauds toiiehecl the chiu. From both jaws of this hitter 

 skeleton all the teeth had been extracted before interment. 



M^ith skeleton No. 1 a bone implement was found at the back of the 

 cranium, and an incised shell and fragments of a jar at the right side 

 of it. With No. 3, which was that of a child about 10 years old, a small 

 clay ves.sel was found 5 inches behind the cranium. At the left hand of 

 skeleton No. S was a shell such as is found in the sands of Paint creek. 

 A bone implement was at th6 back of the cranium of No. 9. With 

 skeleton No. 11 were found a lot of small semi-perforated shell beads, 

 and two bone implements directly back of the cranium. By the right 

 side of the cranium were the perfect skull and jaws of a wolf, and 

 beneath these were two perforated ornaments of shell. In the right 

 hand Avas a shell, such as is found in the creek near by, while in the 

 left was a pipe fashioned from stone. 



At the right of the feet of this skeleton was the extremity of an 

 oblong ashpit about 4 feet long and li feet broad and 1 foot 10 inches 

 in depth. It was filled with white ashes which were evidently those of 

 human bones, since none but human bones could be identifled. In 

 these ashes and compactly filled with them was an earthen ])ot. It lay 

 at the right of the feet of skeleton No. 11. It was lifted out of the 

 ashes with gi-eat care, but the weight of its contents and its rotten con- 

 dition caused it to break in pieces before it could be i^laced upon the 

 grouad. Numerotis other pieces of pottery of a similar character were 

 found in these ashes, and it is not improbable, from the indications, 

 that all these ashes were originally placed in pots before interment. A 

 perforated shell disk 2 inches in diameter and a lump of soggy sycta- 

 more wood were gathered from the ashes. Neither wood nor shell bore 

 any signs of having been burnt. These ashes could not have been 

 buried intrusively, since the sand layer above them was undisturbed. 



Skeleton No. 15 lay 7 feet deep and a half foot below the general 

 burnt streak. It was originally covered with a wooden structure of 

 some kind, for the cores of two red cedar timbers were resting length- 

 wise upon the body and the btirnt remains of j^robably two others could 

 be plainly seen on each side placed parallel to those upon the body. 

 This red cedar was still sound, but the Avhite wood which envelopes 

 the red cores seemed to be burnt entirely to charcoal. The indica- 

 tions are that these timbers were originally 1 foot above the body, for 

 the earth to that extent oxer the whole length of the body was very 

 soft. The timbers Avere noticed to extend slightly beymid the head and 

 feet, while the hefid upon which they lay was upon its right side. The 

 earth above them was a mixture of clay and fine sand and peculiarly 

 moist. The length of this skeleton to the ankle bones was fi feet and 1 

 inch. Two bone implements were found at its head, and at its right 

 side near the head were two fragments of polished tubes and a hollow 

 point of bone whidi ai)pears to have been shajied with a steel knife 



