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with a thin deposit of hematite, pink in shade. At the face was a tube of bone 
6.7 inches in length and .8 inch in maximum diameter, highly polished, like all 
similar tubes in this mound, as already stated. 
Burial No. 172 lay closely flexed to the left at the bottom of a grave 7 feet 
8 inches deep, extending 3 feet 2 inches into the sand. The skull and skeleton 
were saved. 
The skulls and other bones given by us to the United States National Museum 
were shipped from the field without thorough cleaning. After their arrival at 
destination we were gratified to receive from Dr. Ales Hrdliéka the following 
communication: “In cleaning skull No. 290,056, a young female from ‘The 
Indian Knoll,’ we found a ragged hole in the right temple and a crude, large, 
flint arrowhead within the skull cavity,” in reference to Burial No. 172. 
The outline of the broken part is clearly notched by the edge of the arrow- 
point on entrance. On the opposite side of the skull, in line, is a broken space 
in thin bone, the margin of part of which is recent. It is possible that the skull 
at this place may have been fractured by the impact of the arrow within and parts 
may have broken away then and parts afterward. 
One hardly looks for the fate indicated by the presence of this arrowhead to 
have befallen a young woman even in savage times. Doubtless some story of 
murder or of massacre lies behind this episode. 
Fra. 17a.—Arrowhead of flint, found within the skull cavity of Burial No. 172. Both sides are 
shown. (Full size. 
The arrowhead of flint, found within the skull cavity, about 2 inches in 
present length, has lost part of the point and seemingly some of the shank, 
both presumably through force of impact. 
An interesting fact in connection with this arrowpoint, which was used to such 
effect, is its crudity, apart from its mutilation; if found by us under any other 
circumstances, it would have been considered unfinished or a “waster.” This 
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