SOME ABORIGINAL SITES. 473 
when entire, had been pins used as ornaments in the hair, like others in this 
place. Shell beads were at the pelvis and in front of the trunk below the thorax, 
having with them eleven shell strips of various shapes and sizes, each with a 
perforation at one end but without decoration. 
With the beads also were eight tubular beads of red claystone, the longest 
1.6 inch in length, and a fine bead of the same material, oblate spheroidal, shown 
in Plate XII. These beads and ornaments may have formed a girdle around the 
waist. Under the pelvis was a drill of flint. | 
Burial No. 237, a child, having shell beads, a large one of jet and four smaller 
ones of claystone. 
Burial No. 240, partly flexed to the left. At the right wrist were a few shell 
beads and a small, undecorated, shell pendant. 
The condition of the skull of this individual showed him to have been born 
under an evil star. A blow from a club, the poll of an axe, or some other blunt. 
weapon had fractured the skull on the left side, which he had survived, as shown 
by the condition of the fracture. 
On the other side of the skull are marks of four wounds: a cireular opening 
evidently left by the end of an antler point; another opening where seemingly 
two antler points have entered near together, and a third perforation caused 
either by a glancing blow from an arrow, a thrust of a spear coming obliquely, 
or from the edge of an axe. From these wounds the vietim did not recover, 
as there is no sign of repair on the margins. 
Dr. M. G. Miller has kindly prepared the following note in reference to 
these wounds: 
“Starting from a point on the left parietal bone, two inches below the sagittal 
suture and the same distance back of the coronal, a wide line of fracture extends 
downward and forward to the upper end of the temporo-sphenoidal suture and 
continues down this suture almost to the base of the skull. From the upper 
end of this fracture another line, less open but clearly defined, extends downward 
and backward to the temporo-parietal suture which it intersects about 1.5 inch 
back of the main fraeture. Connecting these about 1.5 inch below their point 
of union is a third line antero-posterior in direction. 
“Throughout most of its course the principal line of fracture is superficially 
wide, the separation of the margins of the outer plate of the skull measuring 
over .l inch in places. Тһе edges are rounded and somewhat irregular, evidently 
the result of a suppurative process. Along the middle part of its course, for 
about .75 inch, the fissure extends through the inner plate also, presenting here 
a free opening into the cranial cavity. Restoration of bone tissue, however, is 
evident along the upper part, where there is some thickening of the outer plate. 
“The shorter line of fracture, clearly defined, is solidly united throughout 
its course, while the connecting fracture is merely a trace. | 
“The part of the parietal lying in the angle formed by the two principal 
lines of fracture is somewhat depressed, especially at the apex, where considerable 
