122 ANTIQUITIES OF THE OUACHITA VALLEY. 
At the left side of the skull was a mass of red pigment (iron oxide) and nine 
gracefully shaped arrowpoints of chert. 
At the back of the skull, near the left shoulder, was a vessel of earthenware. 
For some cause which we are unable to explain, the condition of the bones of 
the three extended burials was much better than that of the other bones found in 
this cemetery, though these burials at length appeared as skeletons only, while un- 
disturbed, and crumbled into fragments on removal. 
One other burial in this cemetery was of special interest. 
Vessel No. 434, an undecorated bowl 11 inches in diameter, lay over a skull 
which it almost covered, 34 inches down, at the bottom of a grave. Above it in 
the pit were partly broken vessels which had been thrown aside when the excava- 
tion for the urn-burial was put down through the burial or burials with which these 
vessels had been. 
The covering of the isolated skull by an inverted bowl as a form of burial was 
practised along the western coast of that part of Florida which belongs to the 
mainland. Urn-burial, we may say incidentally, was not in vogue in peninsular 
Florida.’ 
Evidently it had been the custom in this cemetery to place mortuary tributes 
practically with all interments of human remains, as objects were found with nearly 
all the burials, and when they were not present, their absence, we think, could be 
explained through aboriginal disturbance, or the likelihood that some artifact had 
been with a part of the burial now gone through decay, as many objects lay apart 
from human remains. 
We shall now describe all artifacts found at the Keno Place, except earthen- _ 
ware vessels placed with burials having no other objects in association. 
Burial No. 1, fragments of bone, had near it an earthenware tobacco-pipe. 
Burial No. 3, remains of teeth. With these were an earthenware vessel ; blue 
glass beads; remains of an ornament of sheet-copper or of sheet-brass, reduced 
almost to the consistency of paste, which had been wrapped in matting, a part of 
which remained. 
Burial No. 11, fragments of skull having two vessels, one on each side, and a 
fragment of a sheet-brass ornament with matting on the outer side. 
Burial No. 12, teeth, 33 inches down. Fragments of an elliptical ornament of 
sheet-brass or sheet-copper, corroded through and through. This ornament, which 
lay near three earthenware vessels, had matting on the outer surface, presumably 
part of the general wrapping of the burial, and woven fabric on the inner surface. 
The ornament had been suspended by strands of glass beads, which extended down- 
ward. The stringing material had disappeared. 
Burial No. 20, teeth. Two vessels of earthenware ; one pipe. 
Burial No. 25, remains of a skull. A knife of chert, with rounded corners; а 
double-bladed chisel, perhaps of metamorphic rock, 3 inches in length; a vessel of 
earthenware. 
i ue Dee пр Urn-burial in the United States,” by Clarence B. Moore, American Anthropolo- 
