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Near a burial, but not assuredly with it. was a small undecorated bottle соп- 
taining twenty-six hollow sections of delicate bones. from somewhat more than .5 
inch to about 1 inch in length. These objects can hardly be considered beads, as 
they have been broken rather than cut apart. | 
While at work in the Rose Mound, it was decided to examine with the utmost 
care all artifacts found with the next fifty burials, exercising special attention in 
the case of earthenware vessels whieh, owing to their commonplace forms and to 
the paucity or to the entire lack of decoration on them, or else to their very frag- 
Ғіс. 16.—Gorget of shell. With Burial No. 205. Rose Mound. (Full size.) 
mentary condition, otherwise might not have had recorded in our notes the most 
trifling points connected with them. 
Accordingly, those fifty burials first found after this decision was made (Burials 
Numbers 53 to 102, inclusive) were recorded with the fullest detail, and the results 
give, among other things, a fair idea as to the general character of the pottery on 
St. Francis river, making allowances, of course, for fashion which varied somewhat 
in the different sites. 
The fifty burials in question were as follows: 
