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right, the knees erect but somewhat parted, the forearms drawn up against the 
upper arms, which were in contact with the sides of the body. "The head was 
forced forward and down, the top of the eranium resting on the ground imme- 
diately in front of the pelvis. The burial, of course, had been wrapped in this 
position, which made for great economy of space. 
Burial No. 19 much resembled the preceding as to arrangement, with the 
difference, however, that the forearms were crossed on the pelvis and the skull 
rested on them. 
About 3 feet from the surface and immediately on a fireplace, though the 
bones showed no mark of heat, was the skeleton of a dog, in complete order, 
the identification having been made by Dr. Е. A. Lucas, who writes, “It is an 
example of the characteristic, short-faced ‘bull terrier’ breed of dogs that seems 
to have been popular in our south and southwest.”’ 
The remains of the Indian dog as found in the shell-heaps of Maine (and 
incidentally in some shell-heaps of New York and in certain aboriginal ceme- 
teries of Arkansas) have been interestingly described by Loomis and Young.’ 
The jaw of a dog found by us in a Florida shell-heap is described by the late 
Prof. E. D. Cope.’ 
Artifacts were present with but five burials, as follows: 
Burial No. 3, a child, had at the head a pot with loop-handles. 
Burial No. 4 had the skull resting on a fragment of pottery. At the left 
of the head was a bottle with slender neck and expanding opening, having a 
trailed decoration on the body made up of partly interlocked scrolls (Fig. 24), 
a design well known on earthenware beyond the Mississippi. At the outer 
side of the right elbow were two small celts, one of quartzite, one of igneous 
rock, and a somewhat larger one of shale, rudely fashioned, at the outer side of 
the right thigh. 
Burial No. 5, a child, had a pot with loop-handles lying inverted at the right 
side of the skull, and a good-sized pot, also with loop handles inverted over 
the feet. 
Burial No. 9 had at the head part of a coarse, undecorated bowl in which 
lay a large musselshell (Symphynota complanata) and an undecorated bottle 
with globular body and wide mouth. At the outer side of the left knee was a 
large pot having loop-handles, upright, containing a vessel of coarse ware but 
of interesting form. Around the upper part of the body are two encircling 
rows of knobs, and on the margin of the opening all around have been notches. 
From the level of the opening, on two opposite sides, have been extensions 
through which fluid could be poured. Part of one of these, unfortunately, was 
crushed by the blow of a spade in the hands of one of our diggers. Under each 
of these extensions has been a loop handle, both of which, apparently, have been 
! F. B. Loomis and D. B. та “On the Shell-heaps of Maine," American Journal of Science, 
Vol. XXXIV, July, 1912, p. 17 et seq 
2 “The American Naturalist,” Ped 1893, p. 614. 
