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Burial Хо. 31, teeth. Two earthenware vessels so placed that evidently they 
had been on each side of a skull: fragments of sheet-copper or sheet-brass, which 
also had been placed on opposite sides of the skull and 
ear-plugs. 
Burial No. 33, teeth. Six tubular beads of sheet-brass. badly corroded, each 
about two inches in length when i 
presumably had been 
found ; а small elliptical ornament 
of sheet-copper ; two earthenware 
vessels on one side of where the 
skull had been, and one vessel on 
the other side. 
Burial No. 34, traces of bones. 
Three earthenware vessels; a bone 
implement much decayed; sixteen 
small flakes of chert. 
Burial No. 37, teeth. Three 
vessels of earthenware; thirty- 
eight small flakes of chert; one 
pebble; one sandstone hone of 
the class which excites such lively 
interest in the explorer when first 
in contact with his trowel and such 
intense disgust when brought to 
the light of day. 
Burial No. 42, fragments of 
bone. Three earthenware vessels; 
acer ialaxe of sandstone, 7.75 
inches in length, 4.1 inches across 
the cutting edge, and .6 of an inch 
in maximum thickness (Fig. 119). 
We consider this axe, which hasa 
perforation to aid in attachment, to 
have belonged to the ceremonial 
class on account of the material of | 
which it is made, as it is evident 
that sandstone with asharpcutting 
edge, such as is present on this axe, 
could withstand but little rough 
usage. Ете. 119.—Ceremonial axe. Кајо Place. (Length 7.8 inches.) 
Weare indebted to Mr. C. C. U 
Willoughby for the information that there аге several perforated axes and adzes = 
Peabody Museum, Harvard University, one of which, of lignite, from a St. Francis 
river, Arkansas, mound, Mr. Willoughby considers to have been ceremonial, owing 
to the non-resistant character of its material. 
