464 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES. 
tion. Even the sizer had been injured by juxtaposition with the tools of stone. 
Asphalt found in the cavity of the needle and tested by Doctor Keller, is 
deseribed in the Introduction. 
“The Indian Knoll," it should be remembered, is not, properly speaking, a 
mound, but a dwelling-site, and the finding of a grooved axe in it has no bearing 
on the question as to whether or not grooved axes were placed in mounds. 
Burial No. 87, a child. On the chest lay a sizer of coarsely crystalline rock 
(Plate X, H), which had been broken longitudinally and across, but not by a 
blow that had crushed or chipped in any way, leaving four parts about equal in 
size. Three of these parts lay almost together, the fourth was not found, and, 
presumably, when the ceremonial breaking occurred, the portion was left else- 
where. It seems hardly necessary to say here that when part of a sizer was not 
recovered the matter was not lightly passed over or abandoned until after a 
thorough search. Near the skull, upright, was the thicker or hollow end of a 
netting needle of antler. The burial of an adult lay immediately above that of 
the child under description, and it is likely that its position may account for 
the loss of part of the needle and even for that of the fragment of sizer. 
Burial No. 92, adolescent, closely flexed on the right. At the pelvis were a 
few shell beads made from Anculosa prerosa and an undetermined species of 
Anculosa, river univalves. With these were two beads of jet. 
Burial No. 93, partly flexed, the upper part of the trunk face-down, throwing 
the knees to the left. At the neck were shell beads and two of jet. Near the 
left elbow, over the left femur, and on the trunk were fragments of a large marine 
shell, seemingly broken ceremonially and scattered. 
In the angle between the knees and the trunk of the skeleton, at the edge 
of the grave, was a sizer of claystone (Plate XI, D), broken but with all parts 
present except one. Its needle of antler lay with it (Fig. 13, B). With these 
were: a spearpoint of antler; a small mass of glauconite; a lump of powdered 
hematite; a bone pin; several fragments of flint; the pointed ends of four lance- 
heads and the lower part of one of them, all of flint. With these fragments was 
a rude arrowhead which readily could have been made from part of a lance- 
point such as were found. 
Burial No. 95, closely flexed to the right, lying on the bottom of a pit 5 feet 
10 inches from the surface. The midden deposit was here 4 feet 2 inches in 
thickness, and the burial lay 1.5 foot deep in the yellow sand. At the outer side 
of the left humerus lay a netting needle of antler (Fig. 13, F). Its sizer, of 
silicious material resembling jade (Plate XI, G), was found in the sand near the 
pelvis. Shell beads encircled the left elbow. 
Burial No. 97, closely flexed on the right. On the upper part of the left 
side of the thorax were a flint knife and a bone awl. 
Burial No. 99, adolescent, closely flexed on the left. At the neck were shell 
beads in great numbers (Anculosa prerosa and the undetermined Anculosa) 
continuing down the upper part of the thorax. 
