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SOME ABORIGINAL SITES. 489 
is a slight rise, largely of sand, which is filled with burials and probably was the 
principal cemetery of the place, though doubtless scattered burials were made 
throughout the site. In fact considerable digging over parts of the remainder 
of the property came upon the remains of one infant. 
When thirty-six burials had been taken from the rise digging was discon- 
tinued owing to the paucity and the inferior quality of artifaets with them. 
These burials, thirty of adults and adolescents, six of infants and older 
children, showed that the form of burial mainly practised in the place was at 
full length on the baek, though one adult skeleton was closely flexed on the 
back, and there were three regular, bunched burials, each of a pile of parallel 
bones with a skull. There was also a bunched burial made up of a mingling of 
bones including fragments of three skulls. There had been great disturbance 
in this cemetery, caused by intersecting graves. 
The burials, none deeper than 2 feet, except in one instance where one lay 
in a narrow grave nearly 4 feet from the surface, were so easily reached and 
lay in such a favorable medium for the preservation of relies that it is unfortunate 
that artifacts had not been placed more numerously with them, and that such 
as had been deposited were not of better quality. 
One burial had at the skull a flat mass of jet 9 inches by 6.5 inches by 2.5 
inches; another had at the head two small earthenware pots, about the same 
size, each having a row of encircling knobs below the opening, while another 
burial had a pointed implement of bone near the head. 
Burial No. 9, extended on the back, was without a skull in proper position, 
though one lay near the pelvis. On the lower part of the thorax was a shell 
gorget with some kind of a decoration, much encrusted and badly decayed. At 
the outer side of the right humerus was a slab of silicious material, 1 foot long, 
4.75 inches in maximum width, about 1 inch in thickness, lying flat. A con- 
siderable depression in this slab indieated its former use as a hone or mortar. 
On it lay a long spike-shaped arrowpoint or drill, of flint. At the right hand of 
the burial were a chisel and three triangular arrowheads, all of flint. Near this 
burial was a small, undecorated, toy bottle of earthenware, but so much dis- 
turbanee was evident in the neighborhood that one could not determine if the 
vessel belonged to this skeleton or not. 
A burial of an adolescent, somewhat disturbed, had near it a small earthen- 
ware pot with two loop-handles; with the burial of a child was associated a very 
elementary effigy form, two knobs indicating eyes. 
The skeleton of a child had a few discoidal, shell beads at the neck; near the 
head of the skeleton of an adult was a small mass of iron ore used as pigment; 
near the left leg of an adult skeleton stood a small, undecorated water-bottle. 
An adult burial had at the skull a piercing implement of bone in fragments, 
a diminutive slab of sandstone, a mass of hematite about 1.5 inch by 1 inch 
by .5 inch, and a small mass of vesicular lava. А short distance from the skull 
was a water-bottle, undecorated, with wide mouth, more suited in size for a 
child than for an adult. 
