268 ANTIQUITIES OF THE ST. FRANCIS, WHITE, 
Burial No. 4, adult, at full length on the back, in addition to one vessel, had, 
at the side of the right leg, from the knee upward: a “ celt” of silicious limestone, 
about 4 inches in length; three piercing implements of bone, with the articular 
parts remaining; a number of mussel-shells, decayed and broken ; a lot of small, 
round pebbles, probably from a rattle, the remainder of which had disappeared 
through decay; the incisor of a beaver, with the root cut off. 
Burial No. 6 had in association a section cut from a large and thick mussel- 
shell (Quadrula heros) in a manner to leave part of the valve, projecting like a 
hook. Though this object has the form of a pendant, it bears neither groove nor 
perforation. Its position in connection with the body was as follows: near the 
head of the skeleton was an upright vessel having within it another, also erect; 
farther down was a single upright vessel, and at the forearm was a bowl on its 
base, containing a vessel inverted over the shell ornament. 
Burial No. 14 had near it an arrowhead wrought from a tine of deer antler 
which, however, may have been accidentally present in the midden debris. At the 
skull was an undecorated bottle, and two bowls, one within the other. 
Burial No. 16, an adolescent at full length on the back, had, at the head, a 
single vessel, and near the left humerus a shell of the oyster type (xogyra costata), 
a cretaceous fossil having a ribbed back, the ribs, however, in this instance, having 
been removed probably to allow the shell to serve as a spoon. 
A single shell bead was found near a burial. 
Apart from human remains in the mound were two piercing implements of 
bone, and a small “celt,” seemingly of sedimentary rock; while on the surface of 
the adjoining field, to which reference has been made, were gathered a number of 
chisels, some wrought from flint pebbles, some from masses of silicified wood ; a few 
flint arrowheads; a bead of bone; two disks made from fragments of pottery ves- 
sels, one with a central perforation, the other about two-thirds perforated centrally. 
Sixty-four vessels were found by us at the Castile Place, nearly all associated 
with burials. As a rule, the pottery lay near the skulls, though there were excep- 
tions to this. At times a single vessel lay with a burial, but more often two were 
present, usually a bottle and a bowl, sometimes one at each side of the skull. The 
greatest number of vessels present with one burial was seven, the deposit being 
arranged in line in the following manner: a large vessel upright, having within it, 
also upright, a vessel within which was a third vessel inverted over a small one in 
fragments; a vessel inverted over another one standing erect; a single vessel in ап 
upright position. 
Although we have given the number of vessels found by us at the Castile 
Place as sixty-four, this figure by no means represents the tally of those preserved 
by us, many of the vessels having been merely. disintegrating fragments, while 
others had considerable parts missing and were in other ways undesirable. 
One vessel is superior to the others from this place. This is Vessel No. 37, a 
bottle 5.5 inches in height, coated exteriorly with red pigment and having traces 
of the same color within the neck. Modeled in relief on the body of the bottle are 
the head and legs of a frog. 
