1923] 



SKINNER, INDIAN REMAINS IN SHOREWOOD 



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fireplace lined with large cracked bowlders. The bones were in very- 

 poor condition, as a tree had sunk its roots into the center of the grave, 

 and, although the skull was removed whole, it fell in pieces when un- 

 packed at the Museum. 



Three feet south and one foot east of the first burial, another grave 

 was encountered, which contained merely traces of the bones of an- 

 other flexed skeleton, at a depth of seventeen inches. This skeleton 

 was headed due north, and the face was turned down. Curiously 

 enough, the skull was in much better condition than the first one un- 



FlG. 67. — Flexed skeleton found at the Ravenna Park mound sito 

 A notched arrowhead is near the skull. 



earthed, and, while the bones of the body were merely traceable in 

 the earth, this skull was removed almost entire, the bones of the face 

 and part of the frontal bone only being missing. The lower jaw was 

 still present, and showed the skeleton to have been that of a very old 

 person, entirely toothless, with even the sockets in the gums grown 

 solidly together. One or more inter-parietal bones, or 'Tnca bones," 

 so-called because of their prevalence, it is said, in skeletal remains 

 from Peru, though sometimes found even among members of our own 

 race, were conspicuous in the skull. From the lack of development of 



