452 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER. 
skull lay a flint knife. Also with the beads was a pendant consisting of a small . 
conch-shell (Fulgur perversum), perforated at the beak for suspension, and three 
ornaments made from spires of small conch-shells, each with two perforations 
(Fig. 62). 
Burial No. 74, adult, had, in addition to a water bottle, two pairs of shell ear- 
plugs. Shell beads were at the neck. 
Burial No. 82, an adolescent, lying partly flexed on the left side, had, at the 
right of the pelvis, a bottle and a bowl containing another bowl in which was a pot, 
all upright. Alongside these was a bowl within a bowl, both vertically placed. 
Shell beads were at the neck and a shell ear-plug at each side of the head. 
Burial No. 85, adult, had red pigment near the skull and a bone implement 
with flat, rounded end, similar to those already described, lying at the right E 
humerus. At the left of the skull and at the left shoulder, respectively, were two 
vessels. 
Burial No. 101, a od had a bowl and a bottle, also many small, flint chips 
and a single shell bead near the skull. 
Burial No. 104, a child, had with it a wing-bone of a snow goose and the penis 
bone of a raccoon. Raccoon bones of this kind are sometimes found sharpened at 
the distal end for use as awls, but in this case, while the distal end is intact, the 
bulbous, or proximal, end is perforated as for suspension, though it is hard to see to 
what use the object could have been put. Possibly the perforation was placed in a 
bone intended for an awl which, for some reason, was left unfinished. In a Ken- 
tucky site! was found a similar bone of a raccoon, perforated at the proximal end 
and without a point at the opposite extremity. 
Ета. 63.—From left to right: с ју of deer, of elk, and of bison, smoothed for use as dice. With Burial No. 104. 
сап Point, Ark. (Height of largest astragalus, 2.4 inches. 
Near the skull was red pigment, and over the left forearm, the left humerus, 
and the right shoulder, respectively, were a bowl, a bottle, and a bowl. Small 
shell beads were at the neck. At the left of the skull was a handsome discoidal 
of limonite with a secondary ferruginous coating. 
arlan I. Smith. “The Prehistorie Ethnology of a Kentucky Site,” Plate XLII 5. Anthro- 
pological равин of the American Museum of Natural History. Vol. VI, Part 2. 
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