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Here and there in the soil, apart from burials, were a number of arrowpoints 
and knives, all of flint, and all rather coarsely chipped and lacking in finish. Also 
in the midden debris were: hammer-stones; a circular pebble, pitted on both sides ; 
and four piercing implements of bone, one, 5.8 inches in length, double-pointed, and 
very neatly made. 
LITTLE TURKEY HILL, INDEPENDENCE COUNTY. 
Little Turkey Hill, as this mound is locally known, is on property belonging to 
the Barnett Land Company, who also are the owners of the Perkins’ Field mound. 
Little Turkey Hill is most conveniently reached by going up Strawberry river 
about one mile to a log landing and then proceeding inland another mile арргох!- 
mately in a westerly direction, through the woods. 
The “ Hill,” in woods said to be subject to overflow, irregularly circular in out- 
line, is of dark loam and is of the same character as is the mound near Perkins’ 
Field. The diameter of Little Turkey Hill is 120 feet; its height, a little more 
than 3 feet. A hole about 7 feet by 18 feet, about in the center of the mound, had 
been made previous to our visit. 
Fifteen trial-holes, some of which were greatly enlarged in the form of trenches 
extending along the base of the mound, came upon eighteen burials from a few 
inches to a trifle more than 3 feet in depth. These burials lay some closely flexed, 
some partly flexed, on the right side and on the left side. There were several 
aboriginal disturbances of skeletons. 
No bones were in a condition to save. 
Superficially few, if any, fragments of pottery were seen, and, while digging, 
almost none were encountered. Several very roughly made arrowheads or knives 
lay in the soil, apart from burials. 
With a burial, at the right elbow, were a rude flint knife and three fragments 
of flint, and the inverted carapace of a tortoise; and these were the only artifacts 
found with burials, with the exception of those in a grave-pit about to be described. 
In this pit, near together, were five skeletons of adults. One lay about 30 
inches down (the measurement being taken to the upper surface of the skeleton as 
it lay), while the other four were 38 inches down, in clay beneath the mound proper. 
All these five burials had accompanying artifacts, a noteworthy fact in view of the 
paucity of such deposits in other parts of the mound. 
Burial No. 7, closely flexed on the right side, had, at the neck, a considerable 
number of discoidal beads of such diameter that it is apparent they must have been 
made from the axis of a marine shell. Moreover, their structure is of a density to 
indicate their origin from the columella of a large ocean shell rather than from a 
river shell, which, having less solidity of material, tends to disintegrate. 
With these discoidal beads, which are remarkably well preserved, were many 
other beads made by grinding down parts of small fresh-water shells (Anculosa), а 
variety related to 4. prerosa, which latter shells have not been reported hitherto 
west of the Mississippi. 
