62 BURIAL MOUNDS OF THE NORTHERN SECTIONS. 
plates of silver mica, which had evidently been cut with some rude im- 
plement. Although the bones were much decayed, yet they were re- 
tained in position by the dirt which filled the vault, an indication that 
the flesh had been removed before burial and the vault filled with dirt 
as it was built up. 





Fic. 25.—A ppearance of T. F. Nelson mound after excavation. 
Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10, although walled around in a similar 
manner, were in a sitting posture on the bottom of the pit. In the 
grave of No. 2 was found a polished celt, in that of No. 3 a single 
discoidal stone, in that of No. 6 two polished celts, and immediately 
over No. 9 a pitted stone. 
Nos. 11, 12, and 13 are three skeletons in a squatting posture, with 
no wall around them and unaccompanied by relics of any kind. 
Nos. 14 and 15 are two uninclosed skeletons, lying horizontally at 
full length. With the former some pieces of broken soapstone pipes 
were found, and with the latter one polished celt. 
No. 16, an uninelosed “squatter,” of unusually large size, not less than 
7 feet high when living. Near the mouth was an uninjured soapstone 
pipe. The legs were extended in a southwest direction, upon a bed of 
burnt earth. 
The faces of all the squatting skeletons were turned away from the 
standing central one. 
At A was found a considerable quantity of black paint in little lumps, 
which appear to have been molded in the hull of some nut. At B was 
