519 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ОХ RED RIVER. 
= 
this moist ground the soil was dry and hard, and local layers in it were plainly 
distinguishable. А careful examination made after the grave-pit was recognized 
showed it in one place to extend upward through the moist soil to within 3 feet of 
the surface, where it was lost, but in all probability the grave had been put down 
from the surface. 
The pit, which was traceable with the greatest ease in the lower and dry part 
of the mound, the mixed material with which the pit was filled contrasting with 
local layers through which the grave had cut, had two sides running about NW. 
and SE. These sides differed slightly in length, one being 12 feet 2 inches and 
the other, 13 feet. The ends of the grave, which were about at right angles to its 
sides, were 8 feet 9 inches and 7 feet. The grave expanded somewhat in the mid- 
dle, the distance across it there being 9 feet 8 inches. 
The depth of the grave-pit, determined from the highest part of the mound 
above it, was about 11 feet. Approximately 7 inches below the bottom of the 
grave was a layer of dark soil, a few inches in thickness, which evidently was the 
original surface of the ground. Presumably, however, the proximity of the bottom 
of the pit to the base of the mound was accidental. 
On the bottom of the grave lay five skeletons, all at full length on the back, 
as follows : 
Burial No. 1, adult, the head directed NW. 
Burial No. 2, adult, the feet 18 inches apart, head NW. 
Burial No. 3, adult, head NE. 
Burial No. 4, adolescent, head NW. 
Burial No. 5, adolescent, having an arrangement of the arms different from 
that usually found in the case of extended burials, where the arms, as a rule lie at 
length along the sides of the body. Іп this case the right forearm extended across 
the trunk diagonally down, while the left forearm was doubled up, the hand resting 
on the left shoulder. The head of this burial was directed NE. 
Burials Nos. 1 and 4, as may be seen by the plan of the grave (Fig. 12), lay 
each along a side of the grave, while Burial No. 5 rested across one end of it. Par- 
allel to the opposite end and somewhat more than 2 feet from it was Burial No. 3. 
Burial No. 2 lay in the space enclosed by the others. 
Burials Nos. 4 and 5, the adolescents, had no artifacts in immediate association. 
Burials Nos. 1, 2, and 3, the adults, lay in such a way that the skulls of two 
of them were but 3 inches apart, while the skull of the third (Burial No. 1) was 
about 2 feet from the other two. 
Carefully arranged within the space between the three skulls, but apparently 
more closely related to Burial No. 2, were: a group of slender, bone pins, badly 
decayed and broken; an ornament of sheet-copper, evidently originally of consider- 
able size, represented when found only by small fragments; a celt of a compact 
rock, 2.75 inches in length; a graceful lancehead of flint, 3.75 inches long; a 
handsome, barbed arrowhead of flint, about 1.5 inch in length, with five flint 
