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rather more detached than the others, at the time of interment, One of the closely 
flexed skeletons lay with the mandible reversed. 
There were also a burial disturbed in caved soil and one represented by traces 
of bone and teeth only. Probably others of this kind were passed over by us 
without notice. 
The yield of artifacts from this mound, considering the initial discovery, was 
disappointing. With each of two burials lay a single arrowhead of chert, and six- 
teen lanceheads and arrowheads or knives, all of chert, but one which was of 
quartzite, none carefully made, lay singly throughout the mound, apart from burials. 
In addition, also dissociated, a number of broken arrowheads or knives and a 
few small cutting implements, all of chert, were encountered. 
There were in the mound also a number of small balls of compact, brown clay 
—possibly sun-dried—and several objects of the same material, diamond-shaped in 
section and evidently intentionally made. 
MOUND NEAR ENTRANCE OF WASP LAKE, WASHINGTON COUNTY. 
At the left side of Wasp lake, going in, about one-half mile in a westerly 
direction from the entrance to the lake, in a cultivated field belonging to Mr. 5. H. 
McClintock, who lives on the place, is a small mound 3.5 feet high with circular 
base having a diameter of 48 feet. 
Fourteen trial-holes brought no human remains to view, though two undeco- 
rated vessels of inferior ware, broken, were found separately in the mound. 
These vessels were not shell-tempered, though the ware shows small patches 
on the surface, which, however, are somewhat darker than fragments of shell, and 
are not affected by acid. 
MOUNDS NEAR Wasp LAKE, WASHINGTON COUNTY. 
About five miles up Wasp lake, on the western side, somewhat less than a 
mile above Jaketown, are six mounds in the immediate neighborhood of the land- 
ing and a number of smaller mounds some distance away. 
Although it was impossible for us to obtain permission to excavate these 
mounds, we spent some time in examining their surfaces. 
Two are large, quadrangular mounds with summit plateaus and evidently 
domiciliary; one, a low flat mound; another through which a road has been cut; 
while two are mounds from 3 to 5 feet in height, which have been considerably 
reduced in diameter to make way for a railroad. 
One of these mounds apparently had contained many burials, as fragments of 
human bones were scattered about and a large part of a skeleton lay exposed. 
Spread over the neighboring field were many fragments of shell and numerous 
bits of earthenware, some of the latter shell-tempered and some not. Nearly all 
were undecorated, though some bore a beautiful, bright red pigment on both sides. 
The coloring matter on one of these, tested by Dr. H. F. Keller, proved to be red 
oxide of iron. 
