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Of the burials at full length on the back thirteen had the legs crossed at the 
ankles, in seven instances the left over the right, and in six cases in the reverse 
position. 
Burial No. 43, adult, lay with the trunk on the back and the lower extremi- 
ties partly flexed upward. 
Burial No. 81, adult, had the trunk on the back, the thighs almost vertical, the 
legs flexed back toward the thighs. 
Burial No. 92, adolescent, lay at the bottom of a pit about 3 feet in length. 
The position of the skeleton was the result of its restriction to such limited quar- 
ters. The trunk lay semi-reclining against one end of the grave, the head thrown 
back, face up, the arms parallel to the trunk. The thighs rested on the base of the 
hole, the left leg flexed back along its thigh, the right leg extending almost verti- 
cally upward along the other end of the grave. 
Burial No. 129, adult, lay prone, the head on the right side, the right arm 
under the trunk, the fore-arm flexed, bringing the hand to the head. The left 
arm lay along the trunk. 
The soil at the Bradley Place, though fire-places were evident occasionally, did 
not show the long aboriginal occupancy that we have found indicated at some other 
sites. 
In the soil, apart from burials, were: one ear-plug of pottery, of the blunt pin 
type; one earthenware pipe of ordinary pattern and undecorated; three disks 
wrought from fragments of pottery vessels, each with a central perforation ; a num- 
ber of unperforated pottery disks; several chisels made from flint pebbles; a num- 
ber of arrowpoints fashioned from deer antler; part of an antler with an encircling 
groove made preparatory to separation; two astragali of Virginia deer, ground flat 
on two sides and somewhat worked on two other sides, similar to the interesting 
astragali to be described particularly, later in this report, in connection with our 
investigation of the site at Pecan Point. There were encountered in the digging 
also three small celts, one of sedimentary and two probably of igneous rock; one 
small celt of black flint; numerous arrowheads of flint, including two of fair size 
and barbed, the others being small, often leaf-shaped, but sometimes square at the 
base; a fragment of an undecorated ornament of sheet-copper. 
In one or two instances, lying in the made ground at this place, were halves 
of lower jaws of deer, which probably had been used as scrapers for maize when 
green, as they sometimes were among the Iroquois." We are told that this part of 
the jaw was held by the anterior, toothless portion and with the sharp back teeth 
the kernels were scraped from the cob. “The Seneca housewife when she uses the 
jaw scraper, with characteristic humor, says, ‘I am letting the deer chew the corn 
first for me? ” 
Some interments at the Bradley Place were without artifacts of any sort; 
others had pottery alone. 
' Arthur C. Parker. “Iroquois Uses of Maize and other Food Plants," p. 53. New York 
State Museum. Museum Bulletin 144. 
