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Burial No. 56, a child, had at each side of the head an ear-plug of the kind 
somewhat resembling a mushroom in shape. 
Burial No. 57, adult. At the right of the skull were two entire tortoise shells, 
with an arrowhead of antler under one of them. A bowl and a bottle were near 
the skull. 
Burial No. 62, a child. At the left of the skull was a bowl, and another bowl 
had been placed at the left humerus. In one of these was a rude discoidal stone. 
A bottle was at the right elbow, and at the left of the pelvis, the carapace of a 
small tortoise. At the left knee lay a bowl, and nearby an astragalus of a deer, 
characteristically ground for use in a game. 
Burial No. 68, a child, had with it two bottles, one of which had been deposi- 
ted after the loss of the neck. In the unbroken bottle were: one large bone bead 
and parts of another one; a very small and badly decayed shell ornament with a 
single perforation; twenty-five delicate tubes of bone, probably beads, averaging 
about one inch in length. 
Burial No. 70, a child, had at the left of the skull a pot, a discoidal stone, a 
badly decayed astragalus ground to a certain extent as to some of the sides. 
Burial No. 72, a child. Near the skull were: a bowl; a bottle; a flint chisel ; 
a shell ear-plug at one side of the head, its mate probably having been thrown back 
by the digger. At the left shoulder lay a bowl; a bottle was at the left humerus; 
on the lower part of the trunk was a bottle without a neck. At the left of the 
pelvis a pot and a bowl had been placed, while over the pelvis was a bottle, 
Burial No. 75, a child two or three years of age, had at the left of the skull a 
mass of red oxide of iron, ground for use as pigment. Dr. H. F. Keller speaks of 
this pigment as highly ferruginous. At the neck were: thirty-six shell beads 
one-third to one-half inch in length; one small, tubular bead of sheet-copper 
or of sheet-brass, corroded through and through; two beads of glass. With the 
beads were the spire of a marine shell, greatly decayed, having two perforations 
for suspension, and what seem to be two diminutive, copper bracelets, one placed 
above the other and joined together through corrosion when found. These brace- 
lets, if such they are, are made of rods of copper with overlapping ends, but are 
bent to have an inside diameter of .75 inch, and hence, with such proportions, could 
hardly have encircled the wrists of even a young infant. Perhaps, placed together, 
they served as a pendent ornament, in connection with the beads. Attached to 
these by corrosion was a metal bead similar to the one already described. On the 
chest of the skeleton was an undecorated gorget of shell, irregularly oblong, 3 by 
3.5 inches, having at the broader end four perforations, two in line immediately 
above two others also in line. To the right of the pelvis stood a bottle. 
Burial No. 83, a child, had at the neck a bottle, and an astragalus of an elk, 
ground smooth on two of its sides and worked to some extent on two other sides. 
Burial No. 116, a child about six years of age, had with it a bottle near the 
head and shell beads at the neck, with which was a small section cut from the body 
whorl of a marine univalve, having one perforation for suspension. 
