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their upper ends resting against the side of the vessel. Supported by these 
and by the side of the vessel was the skull. Over the containing pot had been 
an inverted bowl, without decoration, having two small projections for handles, 
which was badly crushed, the base of it having fallen in upon the bones, which 
did not fill more than half the lower vessel, part of which also had given way 
under the pressure from above. 
Burial No. 5, the bones of an infant, having over the skull and thoracic part 
a fragment of a pottery vessel, of irregular outline, 9 inches by 10.5 inches, 
approximately, from beneath which the pelvis and legs projected. 
Burial No. 12, adolescent. At the left shoulder were two elongated arrow- 
points of flint and one of antler, while near the skull was what seemed to be a 
mass of red pigment in the mud and water in which it lay. Accompanying 
this was an astragalus of an elk, carefully smoothed on the sides seemingly for 
use as a die in some kind of game. 
Burial No. 14 had red hematite at the feet. 
Burial No. 21, adolescent, had at each side of the head a shell ear-plug of 
the bracket-shaped variety, having near the end of the shank a perforation to 
furnish additional security by attachment. The ends of these ornaments lay 
under the skull, showing that the flat part of the ear-plug had been against the 
outer side of the lobe of the ear. At the neck of the skeleton was a single bead of 
shell, of irregular outline, about .75 inch in diameter. 
Burial No. 29 had, at the left of the skull, a pottery bottle, and on the middle 
of the trunk a miscellaneous assortment of objects in a pile as follows: several 
arrowflakers of antler; fragments of handles of antler, with which were two 
incisors of the beaver, which presumably had been in the handles; four long, 
piercing implements of bone, one very imperfect; a pebble, probably a smoothing 
stone; a small celt of shale; six flakes of flint; a small mass of agate; two rude 
chisels of flint, 4 inches and 7.75 inches in length, respectively; two rude imple- 
ments or weapons of flint, perhaps blunt knives; thirteen arrowheads, knives, 
and spearheads, of flint, the longest about 4 inches, nearly all more or less im- 
perfect. 
Burial No. 32, adolescent, had two vessels at the head, and at the neck an 
irregular fragment of shell having a perforation, which may have been part of a 
gorget. 
Burial No. 34 had on the sacrum two small rings of bone, very fragile, broken 
on removal. 
Burial No. 48. In addition to a bowl near the head there was, with this 
burial, at each side of the skull, a number of bone pins much decayed and broken. 
Burial No. 51, an infant, had the skull covered with a fragment of a large 
vessel, the concave side downward. 
A number of burials had only earthenware vessels associated with them. 
Thirty-two vessels were met with at Hale's Point, one apart from human remains. 
The vessels with burials, always near the head at this place, never more than 
