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this object, about the size of a small hen's egg, a bowl had been drilled, and a 
perforation at right angles to the bowl.. In making the latter, however, a part 
of the mass had been broken off. Unquestionably this object was a pipe ruined 
in the making, though we cannot say that it belonged to the period of the growth 
of the Knoll. 
As this site is by far the most important one on Green river, so far as the 
stream was investigated by us, we shall describe each burial with which artifacts 
were found, and other burials in any way noteworthy. 
Burial No. 2, closely flexed to the left. At the neck were discoidal beads 
of shell, and a bead of jet, 1.4 inch in length, also spires of two marine shells, 
piereed for suspension. On the left humerus were small shell beads and a sizer 
of antler (Fig. 9, Г). On the thorax lay a sizer of limestone (Plate Lx CL 
On the pelvis were fragments of a rattle made probably from the shell of a tor- 
toise, perforated for suspension, which had contained a quantity of small pebbles. 
A lancepoint of flint, 4 inches in length, lay near this burial and perhaps be- 
longed to it. 
The burial was in the midden debris at a place where a considerable proportion 
of shells was mingled with it, and these shells, we think, may have cut and broken 
the needle or needles of antler which probably accompanied the sizers, and the 
spicule of antler may have been mingled with fragments of bone, as the burial 
at this place had been badly injured by the shells. 
Burial No. 4, closely flexed to the left, lay in a grave 4 feet 10 inches deep, 
one foot of which was in the underlying sand on which the Knoll had grown. 
Above the skull was some red pigment (iron oxide), and below the cranium, a 
small quantity of charcoal. 
Burial No. 6, an aboriginal disturbance, had associated small, shell beads 
and a lancepoint of flint. 
Burial No. 13, a child, had a few shell beads at the neck. 
Burial No. 15, closely flexed on the right, had at the neck, a few discoidal 
shell beads, two of which, together, were considerably larger than the rest, each 
being .75 inch in diameter. 
Burial No. 18, closely flexed to the right. Near this burial lay a pestle. 
Pestles, mullers, and objects of bone were so numerous in the midden debris at 
this site that there is no certainty that this pestle belonged to the burial near 
which it lay. 
Burial No. 20, a young child, lying on the yellow sand, the original surface, 
which at this point was 3 feet 10 inches deep. With the remains were a netting 
needle of antler (Fig. 10, Е) and its sizer of limestone (Plate X, A; shown in 
cross-section, Fig. 11, A). 
The finding of a sizer and a netting needle with so young a child would seem 
rather out of place did we not know that sometimes relatives and friends seem 
to have contributed objects of their own at burials, as, for example, in a moment 
of expansion, one might put with a small child, a pipe or a weapon. 
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