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a perforation to aid in attachment to the handle, has on one side evidence that the 
hollow drill had twice been started without accomplishing its purpose, the third 
attempt, however, having been successful. On the opposite side is a longitudinal 
groove where an attempt to cut through the stone has been abandoned. owing, 
probably, to a wish, on second thought, to have the implement somewhat broader. 
Burial No. 171, teeth. Three earthenware vessels; glass beads. 
Burial No. 172, parts of a skull. Three earthenware vessels; the carapace of 
a tortoise. 
Burial No. 174, parts of a skull. Three earthenware vessels; a pipe of earth- 
enware. 
Burial No. 177, teeth. Two vessels of earthenware; nine thin and beautifully 
wrought arrowheads of chert, some barbed and with serrated edges. 
Burial No. 178 has been described (page 121). 
Burial No. 179, parts of a skull. Three earthenware vessels; ten delicately 
wrought leaf-shaped implements of chert, ranging between 1.5 and 2 inches in 
length. 
Burial No. 180, teeth. Four small chips of chert. 
Burial No. 206, remains of a skull. One earthenware vessel; glass beads; 
remains of a brass ear-plug on each side of the head. 
. Burial No. 210, parts of a skull and fragments of other bones. One earthenware 
vessel; eighteen beautiful arrowheads of chert; an axe probably of sedimentary 
rock, 7.25 inches in length, 3.5 inches across the cutting edge (the maximum width 
of the axe), 2 inches across the opposite end, and 1 inch in maximum thickness. 
This axe is without perforation. 
Burial No. 214, teeth. Two earthenware vessels; a brass ring; a few chips 
of chert. 
Burial No. 215, teeth. Two earthenware vessels; a trace of brass or of copper. 
Burial No. 218, teeth. Two leaf-shaped implements of cherty material, with 
serrated edges, one 8.25 inches in length and 2.3 inches in maximum width, the 
other 5.75 inches long and 2 inches in greatest breadth; a small chisel wrought 
from a chert pebble. 
Burial No. 223, fragments of bone. An earthenware pipe; five shell beads; an 
object of chert, not specifically described in our field notes, probably a chisel. 
Burial No. 224, teeth and fragments of bones of a child. A small bell, possibly 
a hawk-bell, of thin sheet-brass; an annular ornament 1.25 inch in diameter, 
of thick sheet-brass, made by bending over the sides of a strip of the material 
until they almost joined, thus forming nearly a circular section, and then bringing 
together the two ends to form a ring; one shell bead ; charcoal. 
Burial No. 229, fragments of bone. A remnant of a tool of iron or of steel. 
Burial No. 233, the urn-burial, has been described elsewhere (page 122). 
Burial No. 238, parts of a skull. Two earthenware vessels; a lump of hematite; 
five flakes of chert, and, a few inches distant, thirty-eight flakes of the same material. 
Burial No. 239, parts of a skull. Twenty-seven graceful arrowheads of chert ; 
