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diagonal position, the head higher than the pelvis. Inverted over the skull, 
the upper part of the thorax, and the proximal end of the humerus, was a frag- 
ment representing more than one-half of a rude, undecorated bowl that had 
been 14 inches in diameter. 
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Fic. 54.— Burial No. 5. "The slabs and skeletons lie in a horizontal plane. Pine Island, Ala. 
Here we observe a kind of urn-burial in Alabama,' a state noted for this 
class of interments. 
Burial No. 10, closely flexed on the left side, a coarse bowl having rude knobs 
on the side, back of the skull, shell beads at the right and left wrists. 
Burial No. 13, a young child having shell beads at the neck. 
Burial No. 14, partly flexed to the right, having an undecorated bottle of 
coarse ware with discoidal base at the outer side of the knees. Vertical, near 
the skull, a flat side parallel to the cranium, was a ceremonial axe of indurated 
shale, 7.6 inches in length (Plate VII, Fig. 1). 
At the outer side of the right forearm and parallel to it was a deposit. First 
were two celts, one upon the other, the cutting edges directed toward the hand. 
Next in order outward was a narrow celt or chisel, beneath which were numerous 
fragments of chert. Below these again lay a small chisel. All these implements 
were of indurated shale. Next were five bone implements, in fragments, having 
nearby a mass of graphite about the size of an infant’s hand. Under the imple- 
ments and the graphite were additional fragments of chert. These fragments, 
fifty-seven in all, were none larger than 2 inches by 1 inch and from half to three- 
quarters of an inch in thickness. 
Away from burials, in the soil, were: a fragment having belonged to a very 
large vessel and having attached to it a massive loop-handle; a small discoidal 
stone; a fragment of sheet-copper; a small cone of sheet-copper, formed by 
overlapping one edge above the other; a single glass bead. 
1 See our article *Urn-burial" in the “Handbook of American Indians.” 
29 JOURN. A. М. 8. PHILA., VOL. XVI. 
