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having become detached in the dead-house or on their way to the place of burial, 
were piled in indiscriminately at the time of interment. 
The yield of artifacts other than pottery, was meager indeed. 
With a bunched burial was a diminutive pipe of limestone, so water-soaked 
that parts fell from it on removal. 
Near the skull of a bunched burial was a quartz erystal showing no sign of 
workmanship. 
Burial No. 17, consisting of what was left by decay of the skeleton of an 
infant or of a very young child, had with it, in addition to two earthenware ves- 
sels, seven cones of sheet-brass, from two to three inches in height; a number of 
blue glass beads; and fifteen very roughly-made shell beads, from .4 of an inch to 
somewhat more than 1 inch in length. The shell beads are about as rough in 
appearance as any we have met with in all our experience, being little more than 
perforated fragments of shell. 
Burial No. 27, a skeleton of an adult, partly flexed, lying on the left side, 
esides having two vessels of earthenware near the skull and upper part of the 
trunk, had near the neck six shell beads, or rather six rough sections of shell that 
had been made to do duty as beads, one of which is shown in Fig. 28. 
With another burial having vessels in association were beads of blue glass. 
Burial No. 65, the skeleton of an adult, lying partly flexed on the right side, 
had with it, in addition to two vessels, two small “celts” lying 
together between the vessels and the skull. We have not 
thought it worth while to mutilate these “celts” for micro- 
scopic slides and for material for analysis, to determine the stone 
or stones of which they are made, and deem it useless to hazard 
a guess on the subject. 
Another small *celt" of hornstone, like one found near 
the Menard mound, is remarkable for the sharpness of its edge. Fic. 28.—Shell bead. Ol 
In debris of the dwelling-sites were several small chisels — i5 mme (Fu 
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and a canine tooth identified by Professor Lucas as having belonged to a black 
bear. 
From the surface of the two fields to which reference has been made, but 
doubtless in many cases plowed or washed from dwelling-sites now, or formerly, on 
these fields, came neatly-made arrowheads of chert; small chisels of chipped chert ; 
diminutive cutting-tools of like material; and two flat pebbles perforated for sus- 
pension, similar to those from near the Menard mound. 
Associated with the thirty burials encountered in the dwelling-site we have 
referred to, were forty-nine vessels of earthenware—many, however, crushed and 
broken. 
In all the sites examined eighty-two vessels lay with the sixty-four burials, if 
we include several vessels not immediately with interments, but which doubtless 
had been separated from them by the plow. 
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