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a small pot, over which, no doubt, the base of another vessel had been turned, 
though а blow from our digger disarranged the fragment во that it was not seen in 
place. 
Burial No. 20, extended on the back, about 3 feet deep, had at the right elbow 
a pot, and farther up the arm a bottle. At the skull was a large bowl. 
Burial No. 21, a child. At the head was a bottle, near which was a small pot 
containing a very diminutive bottle. 
Burial No. 22, a young child, 2 feet down, with a pot near the skull. 
Burial No. 23, an adolescent, extended on the back, more than 4 feet in depth, 
had, at the right side of the head, a pot, and a bowl at the right humerus. 
Burial No. 24, an adolescent, lying in the same position as the preceding burial 
and at about the same depth. On the right side of the skull, which it had crushed, 
lay a pot, and on the left side another pot having a mussel-shell within it, as had a 
number of other vessels at this place. At the right and left of the cranium, just 
at the ears, one on each side, were ear-plugs of shell, resembling short, thick, blunt 
pins—a well-known type. 
Burial No. 25, partly flexed on the right side, one foot down, had a pot at the 
left shoulder. This burial and the succeeding one came from the field we have 
referred to, and lay not far from the surface. 
Burial No. 26, a child, with whose bones were a bottle having a shell over the 
opening, two bowls, and two pots. In one of the pots was a shell spoon which 
unluckily had been badly broken by one of our sounding-rods. Near the skull, 
which was crushed, were two ear-plugs made from mussel-shells (Quadrula heros). 
Below the head of each of these ear-plugs is a groove encircling the shank. 
Considering the disturbance, aboriginal and recent, that had taken place in the 
cemetery near Big Eddy, remarkably few objects were found separated from human 
FIG. 7.—Vessel No. 41. Big Eddy. (Diam. 8 inches.) 
