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We до not know if this fire-place had been used by Indians ог not. At the 
Bradley Place was abundant evidence of aboriginal intercourse with the whites. 
This fire-place, however, was not accompanied with masses of baked clay as aborig- 
inal fire-places often are. 
Prof. F. A. Lucas kindly has identified bones belonging to the following lower 
animals, found by us while digging at the Bradley Place: Dog (Canis familraris), 
Red fox (Vulpes fulvus), Florida otter (Lutra canadensis vaga), Black bear (Ursus 
americanus), Bison (Bison bison), Beaver (Castor canadensis), Swan (Olor amer:- 
canus), Canada goose (Branta canadensis). 
Ето. 45.—Vessel No. 28. Earthenware bottle having opening plugged with clay. Bradley Place, Ark. ( Height 6.8 inches.) 
Two hundred and fifty-eight vessels of earthenware, most of them undecorated, 
and great numbers crushed to fragments, were found by us at the Bradley Place, 
all but six with burials, and usually near the skulls, the greatest number with one 
burial being nine. In or near some of the vessels were mussel-shells (Uzzo) which 
had been used as spoons, some of the shells being smoothed at one side and a few 
notched at one end. Shells sometimes had been placed across the openings of 
bottles. 
