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In Fig. 160 we show the implements found by us, and one of the unworked 
raccoon-bones. It will be noted that the ; angle of the worked bones is h ardly such 
as to hold a fish unless with some added part. 
We are indebted to Mr. William C. Mills. M. Sc., whose archeological work in 
Ohio is so well known, for the information 
that he considers bones of the kind in ques- 
tion belonging to the raccoon and to the bear. 
when sharpened at the end, to have been used 
as awls; and that he obtained at the Baum 
village-site upward of 125 of these imple- 
ments, and more than half as many of the 
same kind at the Gartner village-site. 
Burial No. 17—three vessels near the 
skull. 
Burial No. 19--а musselshell hoe and a 
rude pot of earthenware, near the skull. 
Burial No. 20—at the cranium, a shell 
hoe (Quadrula heros dombeyana), better pre- 
served than some. 
Burial No. 21--а bowl near the head. 
Burial No. 22— vessel at each side of 
the head; with these a shell containing a black 
substance determined by Dr. H. F. Keller as 
follows: “ À mixture of finely divided car- 
goce TR nent wea tea Pulse) Боп and carbonate of lime and contains also 
smaller amounts of phosphate of lime. The 
carbon appears very black and lustrous under the microscope, while the carbonate 
is present partly in pearly scales and partly in an earthy form. It seems probable 
that the material is the charred remains of bones." 
Burial No. 23—а pot near the skull. 
Burial No. 24— spread out in a layer beneath the skull, which rested upon 
them, was a miscellaneous collection as follows: twenty-two tines of deer-antler, 
squarely cut off at the proximal ends; two arrowpoints of chert, one having lost a 
barb; three flat masses of sandstone, probably hones; eleven implements of bone, 
some with rounded points, all with articular parts remaining; ten pebbles of chert ; 
nine flakes of the same material. 
Burial No. 25, a young child—at the head, a pot. 
Burial No. 26—at the right side of the skull, a pot having its opening covered 
with the carapace of a tortoise, the concave side uppermost; four small chisels made 
from chert pebbles, each about 2.5 inches in length, three with highly polished cut- 
ting edges. 
Burial No. 27—at the left shoulder, a pot so carefully covered with a large 
fragment of another vessel that no soil had entered. 
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