468 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES. 
Burial No. 164, whose form has already been described. Near the left of 
the pelvis were three bone pins. In the vicinity of the right elbow were masses 
of red clay and of gray clay, near these being a rattle made from the shell of a 
tortoise, containing pebbles, and a large bead of jet, also a bit of flint. 
Burial No. 165, an infant. On the bottom of the pit in which the skeleton 
lay was hematite pigment covering a space somewhat larger than that occupied 
by the bones. 
Burial No. 166, partly flexed on the left, lay in a pit above Burial No. 167, 
the burial under description being nearly 7 feet from the surface. One of its 
lumbar vertebrz is transfixed by a spearhead of antler, our first experience in 
discovering a point of any kind embedded in human bone. 
Dr. M. G. Miller, who, while carefully removing each bone of this skeleton 
for transmittal to the National Museum, the present writer being at hand, came 
upon the transfixed vertebra, kindly has prepared a note on this subject to 
follow the close of our account of our work at “The Indian Knoll." . 
Burial No. 167. The form of this burial has been already described. At 
the base of the skull was a celt-shaped, blunt implement without the perforation 
at one end that some of these tools possess, though none of the perforated kind 
was found in the Knoll. Also near the skull were two discs of shell, accompanying 
hemispheres of asphalt," the upper parts of ornamental hairpins of the kind shown 
in connection with Burial No. 160. 
Under this burial in part and partly under that of a 
child lying nearby,was the skeleton of a dog. 
Burial No. 169, closely flexed to the left, had an ar- 
rowhead or knife near the skull. 
Burial No. 170, already described as to form. Ex- 
tending along the right side of the lower part of the 
thorax, placed face to face closely, resembling a solid mass, 
were eleven heart-shaped beads of shell arranged to pre- 
sent a uniform outline as shown in Fig. 17. If these 
beads had been fastened together, presumably gum had 
been employed, as no trace of asphalt remained. 
Burial No. 171, already described as to form, had, at 
pp o the right elbow, a lance-point of flint, 4.25 inches in 
Fra. 17.—Objects of length. 
ies ror uh om = Burial No. 173, the skeleton of an infant at the bot- 
«The Indian Knoll." (Full tom of a circular pit 20 inches in diameter, extending 1n- 
size.) to the sand. The bottom of the grave had been covered 
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1 Doctor Keller writes of this substance found with Burial No. 167 as ‘‘a brittle material which 
on grinding yields a light brown powder. It also contains nearly 30 per cent. of asphaltum and 
yields an ash of highly silieious substance which also contains some phosphate of lime, but much 
less than the preceding specimen." 
Reference is made by Doetor Keller to the asphalt found with Burial No. 84, referred to by us 
in the Introduction. Doctor Keller made a number of tests of the asphalt from this site, not all of 
whieh are given in detail by us. 
